Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me

26/02/2025

FREE THIS WEEK ON AMAZON PRIME - also paperback and audible (at a price!)

S*x, Surrealism, Dali and Me was first published in 2000 and was a top-10 bestseller a year later. It tells the biographies of two remarkable men. Salvador Dali, one of the twentieth centuries' greatest painters, and his long-term muse - the Colombian dancer Carlos Lozano. Dali was famously a v...

12/02/2025

Although the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí never visited India, an exhibition of his artworks is being held in the country for the first time.
Starting Friday, an exhibition in the capital Delhi will showcase an expansive collection of more than 200 of his original sketches, etchings and watercolour paintings.

More than 200 sketches, etchings and watercolours by the Spanish surrealist to be displayed in Delhi.

05/02/2025

There is no 'why' in art. It just 'is'. Artists don't know why they do what that do. They just know they have to do it. And nothing is ever exactly how it was planned and nothing is ever quite good enough.
https://cliffordthurlow.com/2025/01/03/not-quite-good-enough/

11/01/2025

S*x, Surrealism, Dali & Me is FREE this week on Amazon Prime -UK, US & EU countries. Also paperback and audio.

'Not just a a memoir, this book reads like a great novel,' El Pais.

S*x, Surrealism, Dali and Me was first published in 2000 and was a top-10 bestseller a year later. It tells the biographies of two remarkable men. Salvador Dali, one of the twentieth centuries' greatest painters, and his long-term muse - the Colombian dancer Carlos Lozano. Dali was famously a v...

20/11/2024

Salvador Dalí and Ultra Violet were often described as lovers by gossip writers who didn’t know Dalí did not have lovers. Dalí might arrive at a fiesta or an opening with a pair of ocelots or a baby hippopotamus, but a sexy young woman bearing lots of bare flesh served the same purpose and didn’t poo and p*e on the sidewalk. Well, not often. Read on...

Ultra Violet was banned from the Sacred Heart Convent, sent to a strict school and exorcised aged 15. Four year later, she knocked at the door of Salvador Dali.

19/11/2024

Dali's portrait of his father.

06/09/2024

I'd really like to know what Dali said that day when he met John Lennon and Yoko Ono -
- https://bookgoodies.com/a/B005HRYCWI

04/09/2024

The day they stole Dali's toilet seat...
https://cliffordthurlow.com/2020/11/15/the-bourgeoisie-stole-dalis-toilet-seat/

01/08/2024

If you get the chance to see Caravaggio's paintings anywhere in the world - don't miss it - gaze into these portraits and you will see aspects of yourself.

Will there ever be a last Caravaggio? He created some 130 oil paintings. Sixty of them are known. That means one more the 'last' Caravaggio is always possible.

28/07/2024

Has there ever been a more profound collaboration?

Salvador Dalí met Walt Disney in 1945 and collaborated on the animated film Destino. It was finally completed in 2018, when the Pink Floyd track Time was added.