During my weekend visit to Prague I managed to steal away to a little gallery on the Old Town square which was holding a Mucha and a Salvador Dali exhibition. I originally ventured in excited to see Mucha's work, always beautiful and elegant and so distinctive in style, but was actually very taken with the lesser seen Dali works; his self portraits (black and white photographs), his smaller drawings and lithographs I find to be much more intriguing than the Google favourites. Yes, the paintings are interesting in the respect of the sub conscious in the typical Surrealist sense but they are flat, awkward. The drawings however show an immediate and sometimes hurried approach to getting his thoughts down on the page and I love the inclusion of fairytale characters.
What an interesting fellow.
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