Tuesday 12 May 2009

Disney and Dali?

A film collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. 



(I would like to preface the following excerpt simply by pointing out that it is complete rubbish. It makes you feel all warm and tingly in the recesses of your brain, your intellect squeals in delight as it prepares to bask in the pleasures of discourse on the irrational, closer and closer to that noetic, cerebral climax...  and then you ascertain the source. And you die a little inside. TRUMPERY. That is all.)

Our ideas of good and evil are only relative. In that other world where all values are transformed beyond recognition, why should not the relationship between good and evil be changed out of all proportion? Deep in the subconscious there must be a stream of continuity, some mysterious power linking us with that source whence all ideas originate... For a moment, then, let us surrender to the ultimately absurd. Pull down the barriers of sanity and let us indulge to the fullest in the realm of unreason... The escape from reason allows one to create a world that at last has meaning. The intelligence is put to rout.
-Robert D. Feild,
The Art of Walt Disney

For the record, Walt Disney is not Surrealist. Not at all. Not even a tiny bit. NEVER. *HUMPH*

For more on why Salvador Dali is a sell-out, read: "An Amusing Lack of Logic": Surrealism and Popular Entertainment by Keith Eggener in the American Art Journal.

2 comments:

  1. The Dali exhibit at LACMA had some amazing film items, and I was surprised at how much he did for Disney. But, to be honest, I thought it was pretty fucking cool! Sell out, yes, but also...just rad!

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  2. Ha, I know what you mean. It really is visually stunning work, I will give him that!

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