I have purchased all the equipment to build an Aeronaurium?!(spelling). Ill let the spiders do their weaving and begin. I really dont care if it works,it just sounds fantastico. Cadaquez,Port Ligat are really worth a visit,along with a wander through his and galas house.

I started painting 17 years ago, and right off the bat, i was obsessed with Dali. I bought every book on him, every book he wrote; including 50 Secrets (which i have HEAVILY notated the margins), two of his autobiographies, his book of poetry, and his novel Hidden Faces. Im an avid reader, and he is a phenomenal writer. truly, the novel is a masterpiece. not a very good poet though. I firmly believe he is responsible for utterly changing the trajectory of my life. I noticed you also flashed a painting by Vladimir Kush! Also a hero of mine, and I actually got to meet him and talk with him. He made an appearance at a gallery, and I was basically the only person who knew who he was, so i got all his time. he signed my copy of his book Metaphorical Journey, and i got to ask him how he created some of his textures that i liked so much. This was a great video, and its pretty cool to see someone giving such an interesting book some love. theres a lot of weird and impractical stuff on the surface, but he was not interested in the surface level. if you havent read his novel, please do look into it. i would be interested to see someone elses take on it. its based around WWII, and he wrote it during the same time period. 1943. its just as surreal as you would expect. anyway, cheers mate! thumb'd and subbed.

Salvador Dali has always been my very favorite painter and visual artist since I found out about him in art class many years ago!! The man is a genius! 😀

We spend our lives searching for the sacred spark of magic, but when we discover its true nature, we find that it is, and always has been, utterly ubiquitous, enveloping completely every moment we have ever experienced.

You need to check out Dali's men's fragrance, "Salvador Dali Pour Homme". It was released two years before his death and it is still in production. An amazing fragrance. It is as dark and surreal as he was. I have a collection of over 150 fragrances and Dali's is in my top ten best of all time. He was also a master of the art of perfumery.

I have been to his museum in Florida several times. His paintings are euphoric and mesmerizing. A quality rarely found in contemporary art in our time.

Yes, Dali was certainly a superb painter and even when surrealism became passé', his work still holds up as beautiful. I saw how through the years trends in art became goofier and stranger. Almost just humor. Now, I think all that is just foolish, yet people will say realism is finished. I just ignored it all and painted what I wanted to paint, ignore and paint what you want to.

I think Dali, knew that it was not about following his instruction, but to follow his instruction enough to 'call his bluff' , meant that you had arrived at being your own master- with no need to mimic him...i.e break with convention to free yourself.

I bought this book twice. The first one was destroyed when the basement flooded in my old house. As an artist, I have always been fascinated by Dali's tecnical brilliance as well as his fantastic vision.

Dali was my first inspiration, and the very road into art, and becoming an artist. He is too much, which is actually what is needed, that is why he is among the most significiant artist of all time.

Wow. Thought I knew Dali but don’t know this book. Spend my teens and 20’s scouting Europe for exhibitions after reading My Secret Life… culminating in the Theatre Museum and finally visiting his house in Port Lligat. Walked right up the steps and knocked on his front door. Peered through the windows but no answer - he’d died 3 years prior, yet somehow I still expected him to be home. So, I sat on the edge of the boat with the tree growing through it I’d seen in so many paintings and I look out at the water and mused a while - I didn’t see any swans reflecting elephants - but I can say legit, I knocked on Dali’s front door. Felt pretty… what’s the word? Surreal!

The spider webs contraption reminds me of some esoteric meditations I came across, Hindu I believe, in which there were many visualization instructions of forms and colors to envision in order to attain very particular states. How I wish I could remember what it was because, as I took a stab at these mindful approaches, I got the feeling that the complications of the meditation had been worked out perfectly by one (or many) in higher states, ones who no longer needed the guides they'd passed down, but had been able to document their progress in such a way as to directly inspire the experience in others who may not even understand at all, until they do...a real manifesting ritual.

Nonsense to the negative background music comments. Good video and some beautiful, if slightly odd paintings.

This man figured out a way to capture, with a painting, the very cusp of human consciousness. Absolutely brilliant.

How can you not love Dali? He's the artist's artist.

For future videos....turn down the music about 3db. It's just way too loud here and makes it harder to concentrate on your voice. Especially after a few minutes when the organ stuff begins. Other than that. Tremendous video. Glad more people are taking out their balls and telling it how it really is and not giving rise to this lazy art like Dali talked about in the gallery with the door being better than the art....heck that's most galleries these days. :D

I love Salvador Dali so much. When I went to Paris I bought a print of one of his works from a museum. I have always been CAPTIVATED by his work, even his work in film! this being said, he seems to be one of the best examples of narcissism that ever existed. if you doubted that he was a genius, all you had to do was ask him and he would convince you. 😊

I love this guy ! He did what he wanted and created his own incredible style.

Great video mate! As someone who has been fortunate to be able to travel parts of the world, Dali's ideas about color palettes in different regions is spot on. That would have a big impact on a painter. No wonder many people don't care for winter. Not just the cold, but the lack of colors.

You got me over here 'Glistening' on some Claude Monet. So glad I looked up the music on here.

Salvador lived a charmed life in another time, when the world was very different than what we perceive today

When i was 12 i gave up trying to draw and then i was exposed to dali at the age of 15....Salvador Dali tought me that art doesn't need rules and to create my own worlds with my own style....

But Dali was not speaking to the average painter, about the valet putting fragrance on the pillow, was he. He was a high-level occultist, speaking to other occultists in ‘the know’. Seems, he had a lot of strange rituals. His art includes occult images to those ‘in the know’.

I remember when I was a little kid and he would be on afternoon talk shows in the '70s. A very interesting person with a unique perspective and a tremendous sense of humor.

i personally really like the music! i have got to get my hands on a copy of this book, thanks for covering it

The eerie & mellow music embody the alluring hypnosis any of his paintings personify. He most definitely had a kaleidoscopes point of view. Hands formed to cast astonishing surrealism ignited by a unorthodox mind. This was splendid to watch. Props.

Awesomne ! enjoyed the video and the music aswell on the end !

Super well done mini documentary. Having a Dali picture book as a toddler had a profound effect upon the way I think and see the world. Didn't realize this fact until viewing this work. I amazing indebted to you. Laughed my tail off with the Dali quotes about the painted door and snow being the enemy of the retina.

Dali was the first to inspire me to make art. I'll never forget the most bizarre documentary our teacher showed us in the late 80s, I think it was called portrait of an artist. I've never been able to find it since but it documented his process making the eggs with him being birthed. As wonderfully surreal as his work was it is often overlooked by many commentators that he used heroine in his formalisation of ideas although he adamantly rejected the idea of being an adict saying that he would partake or not at will. Funny how this is downplayed today as I don't believe it makes his work any less valid, but knowing this it is evident how his work came to be.

Thank you for sharing that out I will add you on my watch later list

I've been to his parents house in Cadaqués , about 30 years ago ;-) . There is a huge egg on top of the chimney outside ;-). LEGEND !!!

Dali had a sharp perspective on life.

Never heard of this book before & I'm looking forward to reading it. Thanks!

My research lab in college was in infant visual development. My professor loved surrealism and got me into it. The connection between the act of seeing and then transferring that onto canvas…interesting idea about the northern painters not being able to understand color.

Yay! Fantastic!

Idk if anyone else has had this, but the dream part of the video really resonated with me because there seems to be a sweet spot between asleep and awake where it's like dipping yourself into some river of free floating ideas and images, really creativity itself...I have written whole songs in this state, but the unfortunate thing is that as you reach wakefulness most of it just kinda stays there and you can only get ahold of so much (like the melody lines) to take with you...I really haven't tried inducing such state as he seems to have done, but after watching this I just might try n see how that goes.

Liked and subscribed, thanks for the amazing video dude. I'm definitely gonna check out that book and you have completely piqued my interest in Dali

Fascinating, thank you 💗

How did you find the music for this? Awesome.

The way he shows the methods of manipulating dreams somehow explains why i had the outcome the way it is. I sleep with the lights on, so i often dream in full color. And sometimes i hear music bcs the music was playing when i was in REM sleep.

I enjoyed this very much. Thanks!

Amazing video my man, loved the chaneel, keep up the good work

i think i was 9 when i first saw dali paintings. it was love at first sight and has never stopped. i added magritte and chagall, but dali never fails to enchant me.

Really love this video 👏👏👏

"I don't do drugs, I am drugs." - Salvador Dali

Fantastic presentation of this amazing book! Thank you!

Dali has always had a hypnotic effect on me. So much so that I was compelled to purchase at auction a brush signed print of the painting "The Lawyer".

Fascinating!

Several paintings I have never seen before, which surprises me as I am 64 now and loved Dali since I was 12.

Hey great job on the video bud!

Unfortunately, I cannot see how any artists or even art itself for the same reason will return to or be created anew in the expertise of the masters Dali spoke of and knew well. Effort, individualism, and a life dedicated to one purpose is I believe, gone by the way of instant everything. Tysm for sharing this, I don't recall ever taking as many screenshots as I have in such a short amount of time. Sincerely, G

Always did love him. Thank you so much.

"Snow is the enemy of the retina" LOL, wow!

Leonore Fini is another artist with a life that matched her art. I love Dali's tarot deck.

Very well done. Bravo good man.

Very interesting and a wonderful soundtrack. Occasionally the narration is a bit hard to make out but a great video. Many thanks!

As an artist, Salvador Dali has always been my sole inspiration, and I really mean that. And that is over Max Earnst, Rene' Magritte and others that I regard as "almost ", as unique. I wish I could have met the man.

beautiful video

People living in a Mediterranean environment do not notice the “colors”, those who come from a different environment are impressed by them. A fish doesn’t know it is in water.

Very nice video!

I enjoyed this video very much.

This book is fantastic. I've read it a few times. It is one of the most useful and influential things I've ever read.

The book is a great read. Highly recommended for both artists and non-artists.

Art history is not something i normally look at but this is great really interesting

one of the highlights of my careers as a lighting designer was working on the Dali universe exhibition that was the first showing of his works in Australia. It had alot of his journal work that was as interesting, if not more than his paintings or sculptures

Excellent doc. well done. Thx for the effort to achieve it.

I always feel euphoria with his best paintings.

YOU MUST BE REALLY PROUD OF THAT BACKGROUND MUSIC.

I am a massive admirer of Dali. That was very interesting.

I'll have my Valet get right on that oil thing...lol! just kidding---nice video---interesting clips. I was privileged as a teenager to be able to see many of Dali's original works up close and in person at a small, private collection museum in the Cleveland, Ohio region---as one of our field trips for art class. He's fascinating for sure.

A surrealist artist friend of mine, many years ago, showed me the original edition hardcopy of The 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship that he'd bought at the local library fire sale, for five bucks. I was astonished. I read it then, and eventually bought a reprint copy for myself. It is the kind of book that you need a dictionary sitting beside it as you read, and a turn of phrase running into a crucial but unknown word turns into a page-turning investigation, ending in hilarious revelation. It's like he has buried his punchlines in the deepest reaches of his prodigious vocabulary, for the edification and amusement of only those who can be bothered following him all the way down the path. I tried the slumber with key method enough to know that it works every time, and the single frame image that you just dredged from your subconscious just hovers in your conscious mind upon awakening, daring you to paint it.

The techniques for dream and daytime astral vision sounds awfully similar to the astral projection and dream work techniques that Aleister Crowley used himself and taught to students. How to escape the dream world and see the Wake World. Dali could have just as easily been a mystic as an artist.

love the KPM soundtrack youve used...big vibe

Thanks!

Our guy Dali was definitely on the spectrum that's for damn sure! Great mini-doc man, I fucks wid it

The Music in the Background is straight slappin!!

Thank you for this. I have been using a meager four spiderwebs, and have as of yet been bereft of the sought after effects. I shall acquire this marvelous tome post haste. I must also proclaim that your videos are a rousing success!

Love this man Salvador Dali is a wonderful person because of him I became a self taught surrealist

Great stuff, thank you! Liked and subbed ☝️

liked and subscribed brudda

Very interesting

I love that book, serious and seriously tongue in cheeky indeedy!

Great documentary! Like the appropriate music choices. 7:12 (Looks like he has an iPad ; - )

I sure will, thanks. Reminded me I haven't read anything by him for a while too long!

I did not know that he was an active dreamer and used those to help create his work. This was a great watch. Dreams have been the driving force behind my own work and it is the case still.

I've been using that key drop without ever having heard of this book.

I almost spit out my coffee laughing when effort popped on the screen 😂

I really enjoyed your video. I share Catalan ancestry and old Spaniards compared everything to Spain and being Spanish on an uneven scale. Just part of that stage of culture. About 6 generations ago some of my ancestors migrated from Barcelona.

Yo what's the music, this shit goes hard

art making turns into a ritual of creating experience states, past the painting, past the frame to the whole gallery of works and the people engaged within it, the steps down the street the particular hue of tonights sunset, the universe becomes the relationship of the artwork to the beholder to the one whose well of meaning is being drawn from to help enact this masterpiece of moment, this happening of unrivaled and unrepeatable experience. how you look and from where you are standing is key, what you bring into the experience, who you are is the lock, the gallery the frame and the art, the door to your soul

Fantastic and walk-through I really appreciate the salary that you have given us

Hey man cool video. I think you should turn up your mic though. It's hard to hear it with the music.

Some good messages here.

Some very nice music

i'd have to agree with his sentiments. Being an artist or craftsman takes as much time and effort as mastering any other talent. Practice and perfection of technique is gone with many failing to even recognize it left. 💚

Thanks for the lead to a new Dali book

He was way ahead of his time! Such a Amazing man!

Dali is the forefront of a pop artist , its morphing into what we are living with .His skill is overstated. Picasso lays him low .

If you ever get the chance pay a visit to the Dali museum, near Barcelona. What an amazing place! An incredible range of work by a true genius.

LMFAO that f•••ing moustache!! He was practically begging people not to take him too seriously with it 🤣 Which of course people still did and that was also something that he wanted. Dali is just like life: a very serious joke and a very funny tragedy.