A delightful short interview with renowned portrait artist Don Bachardy, in which he tells interviewer Bradford J Salamon about drawing Salvador Dali, and his friends, painters Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood. They met on Valentine’s Day of 1953, when he was but 18 and Isherwood was 30 years his senior. They were one of the first openly gay couples in Los Angeles and together until Isherwood died in 1986 of prostate cancer. A film about their lives together, Chris & Don: A Love Story, was released in 2008.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds
Notes towards a portrait of Francis Bacon

The Daily Telegraph reports that the waxed mustache of Surrealist painter Salvador Dali has been voted the most famous, according to a survey of 14,144 British men, conducted by MSN HIM.

Hulk Hogan’s handlebar mustache came second, and Albert Einstein’s whiskers third.

Of his mustache, Dali once wrote:

“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it’s better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of cigarettes, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends:

‘Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?’

“Nobody dared touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

The top 10 Most Famous Mustaches are:

Salvador Dali - artist (24 per cent)
Hulk Hogan - wrestler (18 per cent)
Albert Einstein - scientist (13 per cent)
Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher (12 per cent)
Charlie Chaplin - actor (11 per cent)
Freddie Mercury - musician (11 per cent)
Daley Thompson - athlete (4 per cent)
Bruce Forsyth - TV entertainer (3 per cent)
Jimi Hendrix - musician (3 per cent)
Ian Botham - cricketer (1 per cent)
 

 
Bonus clip Sparks sing ‘Mustache’ after the jump…