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* HitlerAteSugar: Fell victim to this a little, mainly because he was fascinated by [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] (but didn't actually support him).
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** He also collaborated with Italian couturier Elsa Schiaparelli in her designs like the shoe hats and lobster details in her dresses.
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** He was cast as the evil Emperor by AlejandroJodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
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* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel]]. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
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* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', ''Film/UnChienAndalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel]]. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
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* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation? ''Un Chien Andalou'' was deliberately designed to offend and anger the audience into attacking him, and he was deeply disappointed when that was not the case.
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* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation? ''Un Chien Andalou'' ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' was deliberately designed to offend and anger the audience into attacking him, and he was deeply disappointed when that was not the case.
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* {{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2, ''The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory'', which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception, splitting apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter into discrete, quantified units.
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* {{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2, ''The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory'', which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception, splitting apart the flowing picure picture of time, space, and matter into discrete, quantified units.
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* {{Troll}}: His intention for ''Un Chien Andalou'' (see MadArtist).
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* {{Troll}}: His intention for ''Un Chien Andalou'' ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' (see MadArtist).
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Sometimes he gave his paintings ridiculously specific titles, like "Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment" or "Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Sometimes he gave his paintings ridiculously specific titles, like "Face of Mae West Creator/MaeWest Which May Be Used as an Apartment" or "Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
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* MaeWest: He once made a painting of her.
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* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director Luis Buñuel. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
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* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel.Buñuel]]. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
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* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation? "Un Chien Andalou" was deliberately designed to offend and anger the audience into attacking him, and he was deeply disappointed when that was not the case.
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* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation? "Un ''Un Chien Andalou" Andalou'' was deliberately designed to offend and anger the audience into attacking him, and he was deeply disappointed when that was not the case.
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* {{Troll}}: His intention for "Un Chien Andalou" (see MadArtist).
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* {{Troll}}: His intention for "Un ''Un Chien Andalou" Andalou'' (see MadArtist).
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Subverted, with his friendship with FredericoGarciaLorca. According to Dalí's account, Lorca was madly in love with him. Dalí claimed they even tried to have sex one time but had to stop because "it hurt too much."
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Subverted, with his friendship with FredericoGarciaLorca.FedericoGarciaLorca. According to Dalí's account, Lorca was madly in love with him. Dalí claimed they even tried to have sex one time but had to stop because "it hurt too much."
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Subverted, with his friendship with FredericoGarciaLorca. According to Dalí's account, Lorca was madly in love with him. Dalí claimed they even tried to have sex one time but had to stop because "it hurt too much."
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* HeAlsoDid: Of all things, designed the label for Chupa Chups lollipops.
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* HeAlsoDid: Of all things, designed the label for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_Chups Chupa Chups lollipops.lollipops]].
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* MaeWest: He once made a painting of her.
* Creator/ShirleyTemple: He once made a - not very flattering- painting of her.
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** Came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
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** Once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
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** A pet [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/327357/dali_anteater.jpg anteater]].
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AKA The guy with crazy mustaches who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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AKA The guy with crazy mustaches who made the melting clocks painting.painting and elephants with giant thin legs. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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->"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
AKA The guy who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
AKA The guy who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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AKA The guy with crazy mustaches who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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* WorldOfChaos: Most of his paintings are set there, and helped inspire many later uses of the trope.
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** His famous "The Persistence of Memory" was inspired by deliberately sleep-depriving himself, and letting disorientation do the rest.
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* LongTitle: He sometimes gave his paintings titles like this, such as "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" or "ShirleyTemple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time".
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* LongTitle: He sometimes gave his paintings titles like this, such as "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" or "ShirleyTemple, "Creator/ShirleyTemple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time".
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[In-universe He famously declared]], "I don't do drugs. I ''am'' drugs."
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: He famously declared, "I don't do drugs. I ''am'' drugs."
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* {{Sequel}}:
** His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2, ''The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory'', which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception, splitting apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter into discrete, quantified units.
** His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2, ''The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory'', which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception, splitting apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter into discrete, quantified units.
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* {{Sequel}}:
**{{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2, ''The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory'', which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception, splitting apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter into discrete, quantified units.
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* BadassMustache: Without a doubt, his most distinctive physical feature. He claimed it was a pair of antennas he used to pick up ideas.
** To the point that when he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
** There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches.
** To the point that when he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
** There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches.
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* BadassMustache: Without a doubt, his most distinctive physical feature. There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches. He claimed it was a pair of antennas he used to pick up ideas.
** To the point that whenideas. When he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
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* CoolPet: He had a pet [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxeyveFHc21qcpgr3o1_500.jpg ocelot]] named "Babou."
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** Even better : a pet [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/327357/dali_anteater.jpg anteater]].
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* MindScrew: As if the inherent weirdness of his paintings wasn't enough, many of them also employ perspective tricks and optical illusions, so you get different images depending on how far you are from them and what angle you view them at.
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dalí's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that he gave himself sleeping problems to "help" his creative process. He usually slept in an armchair holding a spoon over a metal plate; that way, as soon as he had slept enough to relax his muscles, he would wake himself up. He claimed that this prevented him from dreaming while asleep, which forced his mind to dream while he was awake...
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dalí's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that he gave himself sleeping problems to "help" his creative process. He usually slept in an armchair holding a spoon over a metal plate; that way, as soon as he had slept enough to relax his muscles, he would wake himself up. He claimed that this prevented him from dreaming while asleep, which forced his mind to dream while he was awake...
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* MindScrew: As if the inherent weirdness of his paintings wasn't enough, many of them also employ perspective tricks and optical illusions, so you get different images depending on how far you are from them and what angle you view them at.
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dalí's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that heat. He gave himself sleeping problems to "help" his creative process. He usually slept in an armchair holding a spoon over a metal plate; that way, as soon as he had slept enough to relax his muscles, he would wake himself up. He claimed that this prevented him from dreaming while asleep, which forced his mind to dream while he was awake...
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dalí's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that he
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* {{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2 which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception.
** "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" was also Dalí's interpretation of how Quantum Mechanics split apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter of Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity into discrete, quantified units.
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** "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" was also Dalí's interpretation of how Quantum Mechanics splitperception, splitting apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter of Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity into discrete, quantified units.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dalí actually did a collaboration project with Creator/WaltDisney, of all people, on a short subject that was meant for ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped. ''Destino'' was eventually completed in 2003 and was finally released on DVD as an extra on the 2010 holiday release of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
** Also, once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
** Also, came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
** ''Also'', he was cast as the evil Emperor by Alejandro Jodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[In-universe Famously declared]]:
-->''I don't do drugs. I ''am'' drugs.''
** Also, once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
** Also, came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
** ''Also'', he was cast as the evil Emperor by Alejandro Jodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
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**Also, once Once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
**Also, came Came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
**''Also'', he He was cast as the evil Emperor by Alejandro Jodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:[[In-universe Famously declared]]:
-->''IHe famously declared, "I don't do drugs. I ''am'' drugs.''"
** Dalí actually did a collaboration project with Creator/WaltDisney, of all people, on a short subject that was meant for ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped. ''Destino'' was eventually completed in 2003 and was finally released on DVD as an extra on the 2010 holiday release of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dalí actually did a collaboration project with WaltDisney, Creator/WaltDisney, of all people, on a short subject that was meant for ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped. ''Destino'' was eventually completed in 2003 and was finally released on DVD as an extra on the 2010 holiday release of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
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* BerserkButton: Dali was a notorious perfectionist, such that he once smashed apart one of his art projects displayed in a window ''just because some tiny adjustments had been made to it''.
* BookDumb: Subverted. Dali would rather daydream than pay attention, to the point where he could neither read nor write after his first year. After his father Salvador Dali Cusi started encouraging his son's love of art, Salvador began getting better grades.
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* BerserkButton: Dali Dalí was a notorious perfectionist, such that he once smashed apart one of his art projects displayed in a window ''just because some tiny adjustments had been made to it''.
* BookDumb: Subverted.Dali Dalí would rather daydream than pay attention, to the point where he could neither read nor write after his first year. After his father Salvador Dali Cusi Dalí i Cusí started encouraging his son's love of art, Salvador began getting better grades.
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* GRatedDrug: One of Dali's claims was that he ate a large quantity of Camembert cheese to give himself vivid dreams to serve as inspiration for his paintings. It's unknown whether or not he actually did so, and it's also unknown whether or not this would work, wouldn't work, or would work due to the PlaceboEffect.
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* GRatedDrug: One of Dali's Dalí's claims was that he ate a large quantity of Camembert cheese to give himself vivid dreams to serve as inspiration for his paintings. It's unknown whether or not he actually did so, and it's also unknown whether or not this would work, wouldn't work, or would work due to the PlaceboEffect.
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* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dali was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender.
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** "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" was also Dali's interpretation of how Quantum Mechanics split apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter of Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity into discrete, quantified units.
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->"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
AKA The guy who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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!!'''This painter provides examples of:'''
* BadassMustache: Without a doubt, his most distinctive physical feature. He claimed it was a pair of antennas he used to pick up ideas.
** To the point that when he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
** There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches.
* BerserkButton: Dali was a notorious perfectionist, such that he once smashed apart one of his art projects displayed in a window ''just because some tiny adjustments had been made to it''.
* BookDumb: Subverted. Dali would rather daydream than pay attention, to the point where he could neither read nor write after his first year. After his father Salvador Dali Cusi started encouraging his son's love of art, Salvador began getting better grades.
* CloudCuckooLander: And ''how''.
* CoolPet: He had a pet [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxeyveFHc21qcpgr3o1_500.jpg ocelot]] named "Babou."
** And a pet sloth.
** Even better : a pet [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/327357/dali_anteater.jpg anteater]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Sometimes he gave his paintings ridiculously specific titles, like "Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment" or "Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director Luis Buñuel. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
* GRatedDrug: One of Dali's claims was that he ate a large quantity of Camembert cheese to give himself vivid dreams to serve as inspiration for his paintings. It's unknown whether or not he actually did so, and it's also unknown whether or not this would work, wouldn't work, or would work due to the PlaceboEffect.
* HeAlsoDid: Of all things, designed the label for Chupa Chups lollipops.
* HitlerAteSugar: Fell victim to this a little, mainly because he was fascinated by [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] (but didn't actually support him).
* LongTitle: He sometimes gave his paintings titles like this, such as "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" or "ShirleyTemple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time".
* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation?
* MindScrew: As if the inherent weirdness of his paintings wasn't enough, many of them also employ perspective tricks and optical illusions, so you get different images depending on how far you are from them and what angle you view them at.
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dali's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that he gave himself sleeping problems to "help" his creative process. He usually slept in an armchair holding a spoon over a metal plate; that way, as soon as he had slept enough to relax his muscles, he would wake himself up. He claimed that this prevented him from dreaming while asleep, which forced his mind to dream while he was awake...
* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dali was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender.
* ShapedLikeItself: The page quote.
* {{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2 which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception.
** "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" was also Dali's interpretation of how Quantum Mechanics split apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter of Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity into discrete, quantified units.
* SurrealHorror: A ''lot'' of his works fall into this territory.
* TarotMotifs: He provided illustrations for a 72 card Tarot deck. Naturally "The Magician" was a self-portrait.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dali actually did a collaboration project with WaltDisney, of all people, on a short subject that was meant for ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped. ''Destino'' was eventually completed in 2003 and was finally released on DVD as an extra on the 2010 holiday release of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
** Also, once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
** Also, came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
** ''Also'', he was cast as the evil Emperor by Alejandro Jodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
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->"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."
AKA The guy who made the melting clocks painting. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, especially in the genre of surrealism, which involves painting dreamlike images which are left to the viewer to interpret as they wish. He didn't just paint surrealism, though. He ''lived'' it. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).
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!!'''This painter provides examples of:'''
* BadassMustache: Without a doubt, his most distinctive physical feature. He claimed it was a pair of antennas he used to pick up ideas.
** To the point that when he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
** There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches.
* BerserkButton: Dali was a notorious perfectionist, such that he once smashed apart one of his art projects displayed in a window ''just because some tiny adjustments had been made to it''.
* BookDumb: Subverted. Dali would rather daydream than pay attention, to the point where he could neither read nor write after his first year. After his father Salvador Dali Cusi started encouraging his son's love of art, Salvador began getting better grades.
* CloudCuckooLander: And ''how''.
* CoolPet: He had a pet [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxeyveFHc21qcpgr3o1_500.jpg ocelot]] named "Babou."
** And a pet sloth.
** Even better : a pet [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/327357/dali_anteater.jpg anteater]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Sometimes he gave his paintings ridiculously specific titles, like "Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment" or "Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Un Chien Andalou'', in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director Luis Buñuel. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.
* GRatedDrug: One of Dali's claims was that he ate a large quantity of Camembert cheese to give himself vivid dreams to serve as inspiration for his paintings. It's unknown whether or not he actually did so, and it's also unknown whether or not this would work, wouldn't work, or would work due to the PlaceboEffect.
* HeAlsoDid: Of all things, designed the label for Chupa Chups lollipops.
* HitlerAteSugar: Fell victim to this a little, mainly because he was fascinated by [[AdolfHitler Hitler]] (but didn't actually support him).
* LongTitle: He sometimes gave his paintings titles like this, such as "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" or "ShirleyTemple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time".
* MadArtist: Does this ''really'' need any explanation?
* MindScrew: As if the inherent weirdness of his paintings wasn't enough, many of them also employ perspective tricks and optical illusions, so you get different images depending on how far you are from them and what angle you view them at.
** This trope could also apply to ''his entire life.'' To this day, no one is quite sure how much of Dali's strange behavior was an act, put on as part of his art.
*** Then there are those who say nothing he did was an act. And those who say ''everything'' was.
*** Part of the issue may have been that he gave himself sleeping problems to "help" his creative process. He usually slept in an armchair holding a spoon over a metal plate; that way, as soon as he had slept enough to relax his muscles, he would wake himself up. He claimed that this prevented him from dreaming while asleep, which forced his mind to dream while he was awake...
* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dali was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender.
* ShapedLikeItself: The page quote.
* {{Sequel}}: His famous "Persistence of Memory" picture had a follow-up after WW2 which shows everything shattering into pixel-like fragments, which was meant to represent the impact of the theory of relativity and the atom bomb upon perception.
** "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" was also Dali's interpretation of how Quantum Mechanics split apart the flowing picure of time, space, and matter of Einstein's Theory Of General Relativity into discrete, quantified units.
* SurrealHorror: A ''lot'' of his works fall into this territory.
* TarotMotifs: He provided illustrations for a 72 card Tarot deck. Naturally "The Magician" was a self-portrait.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Dali actually did a collaboration project with WaltDisney, of all people, on a short subject that was meant for ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', but was ultimately scrapped. ''Destino'' was eventually completed in 2003 and was finally released on DVD as an extra on the 2010 holiday release of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.
** Also, once asked a young LorraineBracco if he could paint her in the nude, but she refused, just thinking he was some creepy old man.
** Also, came pretty close to making a film with the Marx Brothers; some stills from the storyboard include Harpo playing a harp on fire on the top of a cliff while Chico negotiates a maze of bicyclists a la Frogger.
** ''Also'', he was cast as the evil Emperor by Alejandro Jodorowski in a proposed film adaptation of ''Dune''.
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