Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...
Another early hero of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, had been excommunicated for a rankling crime: success. Dali's slick-as-grease craftsmanship and even slicker pressagenting had won him a reputation as a sort of a screwball Benvenuto Cellini in modern dress. Last week a new edition of the real Cellini's famed Autobiography appeared (Doubleday Limited Editions; $10) and it was illustrated by Dali...
...Dali had drawn 40 illustrations, and they were enough to make Cellini do a double roll in his grave. For example, Dali had decided to picture an incident when Cellini was five, and saw a lizard among the hot coals in the fireplace. The incident was memorable to Cellini, because his father "gave me a great box on the ears-and spoke as follows: 'My dear little boy, I am not striking you for any wrong that you have done, but only to make you remember that the lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...
Cellini's art had been well-tailored for a discerning market and highly polished enough to reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. Dali's purely subjective and surprisingly slapdash illustrations...