Hello everyone

I am on a getting fit fix, and I have sussed out that if i do 10k a day on my exercise bike then I can watch half an art documentary. Win win I say. 

I have ALWAYS loved the artist Salvador Dalí for as long as I can remember. When I was 8 it was all about Dalí and the song imagine by John Lennon for me.

I have a book of his collected works, which has accompanied me through late teens. right up to my (ahem…. nearly 40s). When one relationship ended, that was the only thing I wanted back.

It was originally published in 1999 which is when I got it. This is also the year I left school with hopes of going to art school and studying art history and fine art in Italy. I would learn from the masters and paint my place in the world in my daydreams. It really is an awesome book.

Dalí: The Paintings: BU (Bibliotheca Universalis)

Early works

Dalí created his first painting in 1910; it was entitled Landscape Near Figueras. and he did it when he was just six years old.

So the documentary I watched was brilliant and it covered his whole life, his art, and his impact on the art work, culture, branding and design. It was episode 4 of a series called Modern Masters which aired on the BBC in 2011 (yes, I am a bit late to the party). Did you know he designed the chupa chups branding which is still used today?

After I watched it I decided to draw him but it didn’t quite go as planned…

So world, meet Salvador Dalí, who it would seem, is being played by actor Steve Buschemi .

In other news, I fell down a internet rabbit hole…

In 1973 Salvador Dalí created a portrait of Alice Cooper’s brain using chocolate éclairs, ants, diamonds and early holographic technology. 

Here’s a picture, Copyright credited to Bob Gruen.

Anyhow, Take care

Rahford x