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Salvador Dali Alfred Hitchcock Spellbound

Alfred Hitchcock wanted Salvador Dali to create a dream sequence for his 1940's film "Spellbound" with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. Hitchcock felt that Dali was the only one who understood that dreams were not properly represented in films because in those days directors and special effects people would depict dreams in a fog or haze and use lense filters to blur the edges of the scene. Hitchcock wanted sharp edges and long shadows, Dali was the perfect man for the job and was hired to create the now famous dream sequence.

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Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali

Alice Cooper was asked by Laura Barnett:

What's your favorite museum?

The Salvador Dalí museum in Figueres, Spain. Five of the original band members were art majors, and we worshipped Dalí: we thought of ourselves as surrealists. I worked with Dalí for four days in New York in 1974. He did a sculpture of my brain. It's a brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back, and ants climbing all over it and spelling out "Dalí and Alice".

Salvador Dali in Singapore

Singapore’s ArtScience Museum

“Dali: Mind of a Genius,” ongoing until Oct. 30, which boasts over 250 works by the Spanish Surrealist.
It includes furniture, jewelry, sculptures and paintings. Most of them are iconic: the lipstick-red “Mae West Lips Sofa,” inspired by the Hollywood actress; “Dance of Time,” his melted clocks; and “Spellbound,” a painting as large as a double-decker bus, which appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie.
Both the Van Gogh and Dali shows are traveling exhibitions. The museum has its own small permanent collection—housed in three galleries on the top floor, called Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression—which contain interactive works that argues the connection between art and science.

Salvador Dali in San Diego

Salvador Dalí's "The Ascension of Christ"

While you may want to plan a vacay to San Diego to hit the beaches this summer, there's another reason to go, and one that provides air-conditioning: It's the only U.S. stop for the exhibition "El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection" Head to the San Diego Museum of Art for your only chance to see 64 famous artworks from such masters as Picasso and Dalí.
The exhibit, which opens July 9, features the work that covers the history of Spanish art over the last 500 years. You'll see oil paintings, sculptures and drawings at the Balboa Park museum.
Art aficionados will be pumped to see various facets of of Catholic Reformation art from the 16th to 18th centuries through the works of El Greco, José de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Goya and Sanchez Coello go the royal route and offer court portraits of Spanish monarchs, balancing the portrayal of power with realistic representations.
The exhibit also includes 10 works by Joaquin Sorolla, the master of capturing simple pleasures and known for vivid, bright, strong canvasses. Sorolla's work highlights the strong national identity that characterizes Spanish art of the 19th century. The exhibition finishes with a dialogue between Cubism and Surrealism by the artists who revolutionized western art and are now household names: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Salvador Dalí.
If you want to check out the Spanish masters' works, the exhibit runs through to October 3. Admission is $12 for adults and $4.50 for ages seven to 17.