Hyperrealistic sculptures of Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Abraham Lincoln
These almost unbelievably realistic sculptures of Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Abraham Lincoln are imbued with a downright menacing level of detail. The extremely uncanny…
Salvador Dalí
Insane Salvador Dalí haircut & other follicle follies
Salvador Dalí San Antonio-based artist and hair stylist Roberto Perez AKA Rob The Original creates these pretty nutty haircuts with the scalp as a blank…
Salvador Dali’s cookbook is every bit as insane as you would expect it to be
Front view and back view In 1973, French publisher Felicie put out a remarkable “cookbook” (quotation marks are important here) by the great Surrealist master…
The insane ‘happening’ Salvador Dalí wanted to do for Aphrodite’s Child in 1972
Vangelis and Dalí hanging out Aphrodite’s Child was Greece’s most prominent contribution to the prog-rock scene in the late ’60s and early ’70s. They released…
Down the rabbit-hole with Salvador Dali’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’
It seems like a perfect match, the master of Surrealist painting, Salvador Dali illustrating a classic of nonsense literature, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.…
Art & Commerce: Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí’s commercials for Braniff Airways, 1967
In 1967 legendary adman and designer George Lois conceived a hip new ad campaign for Braniff International Airways, in a style that was remarkably similar…
Salvador Dali’s Christmas cards
Salvador Dali designed a series of nineteen Christmas cards between 1958 and 1976. These greeting cards were specially produced for the Barcelona-based company Hoechst Ibérica,…
Salvador Dali tries his hand at ‘Dynamic Painting’ on ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ 1963
Francis Bacon described Jackson Pollock as the “lacemaker,” as he thought Pollock’s Action Paintings looked like the intricacies of fine lacework. The description was flippant,…
Don Bachardy on drawing Salvador Dali, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon
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,…
Serge Gainsbourg as Salvador Dali
“Ee’s SURREAL!” Both above photo and the below video are via the Melody Nelson 33 1/3 Twitter feed. Darran Anderson’s Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody…