Every time he sees the portrait of Spanish artist Dali, it is his beard that rushes in. In our usual cognition, the beard is waterfall-shaped and the moustache is eight-shaped, but Dali's moustache is inverted eight-shaped, stubborn and tall, like two curved steel needles, poking into the sky for a long time. The above is only one shape of his beard, and there are dozens of others-fishing rod, hour hand, branch, oblique figure-8, and even a group of photos will be hung on his beard, or a petal will be strung at each end of his beard ... < P > It should be said that Dali's beard is the most peculiar shape among the "Hu Qun" I have ever seen. It is said that in 21, a British charity launched a poll to select "the most famous beard in the world". As a result, a quarter of the British people voted for his beard, which made him win the first prize. More interestingly, 28 years after Dali's death, 61-year-old Spanish pilar Abel claimed to be his illegitimate daughter and asked for paternity test. When the court opened the coffin to extract Dali's DNA, he found that his beard was still high.
With its grotesque shape, the beard has become the most classic symbol of Dali, and it also exists like a god. Halsman, an American photographer, was attracted by it, and spent about two years working with Dali to create a series of works, named "Dali's Beard" and published it in a collection, one of which was also selected in "1 cases of excellent photography in a hundred years". Yoko Ono Lennon, a Japanese-American avant-garde artist, wanted to collect one of his beards. Dali offered $1,, but she agreed, but all she got was a piece of hay.
regarding his signature beard, Dali once proudly declared, "Many Americans come to visit me in Spain in summer. Do they want to see my paintings? Actually, it's not. They're just interested in my beard.
People don't need a great painter, they just need a pair of beautiful beards. " This is really not a compliment.
When people look up to his works, many people turn their eyes to his beard. Before he died, the King of Spain visited him and specially looked at his "famous beard".
Because the beard has brought many "dividends" to Dali, he is also particularly interested in it. In addition to taking many "photos" of it, Dali rubs it with beeswax, honey and Hungarian pomade every morning. Until 1978, when Halsman photographed him for the last time, he still had two stubbornness beards. It is said that the hair gel he used on his beard all his life can add up to a whole circle around the earth! In addition, he played tricks on the self-portrait and "copied" his face into the Mona Lisa, named "Mona Dali".
Perhaps Dali devoted himself too much to creating his own beard, and spent a lot of time and energy on etching, sculpture, architecture, photography, drama, film, literature and jewelry design. Although he was considered as the three most representative painters in the 2th century together with Picasso and Matisse, his achievements in painting were far from those of the other two, and he was not only lacking in originality-Picasso and Matisse founded cubism respectively.
Some people say that Dali's beard is a work of art in itself! As a master of surrealism, his predecessor Duchamp moved a urine pocket into an art exhibition and won the title of "Father of Modern Art". And his beard, which has formed a unique style, is regarded as another "urine pocket", which is really not bad. In fact, as early as when Dali was alive, his collaborator Halsman thought: Dali's beard is a surreal existence in the real world; Dali's beard is his most ambitious dream and his most extraordinary and eccentric work.
If this statement is true, the popularity of "Dali's Beard" is no less than Picasso's The Dove of Peace, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and naturally Duchamp's The Fountain (that is, the Urine Pocket). However, to achieve such a "masterpiece", only a genius like Dali can do it, which requires "unconventional thinking+crazy and bold behavior+extreme hype", in other words, to achieve "the only difference between me and human beings is that I am crazy. The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not a madman. "
at this point, I think of the video I watched some time ago: there are some so-called painters and painters who either shoot ink from syringes on cloth; Either naked, pick up a basin of ink and pour it down from the top of your head; Or spread the canvas on the ground, dip their bodies in color, and paint on the ground ... They hope to win a little fame, but they are regarded as crazy after all. To sum up their failure experience, they ignored a key factor: Dali had already gained fame before playing with his beard, but the light of the beard covered up this fact.