Dali and Destino

I went to MOMA today to see the Dali: Art & Film exhibit. I am a big fan of Dali (as all 4 of the readers on this blog know). I did my best not to look at the films, though, but of course walked right in and came face-toface with a huge screening of "An Andulusian Dog", right at the majorly disturbing scene of an eyeball being sliced by a razor (!) I could hear people aying "OH! EW!!!!"

Interestingly enough, there was a cartoon called "Destino" that Dali worked on with Walt Disney back in the 1940s, but was only just completed in 2003. Set to a Mexican ballad called "Destino", a young woman dances in a desert while all around her, the iconic images of Dali form and disappear. Amazing! It is 6 minutes 40 seconds long and nominated for an Oscar.

An aside: one of my older clients remembers seeing Dali in the cafes of new York before he passed away in 1989. He looked like the above, according to his self-portait.