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...SALVADOR DALI-Knoedler, 14 East 57th...
...people who came to Manhattan's conservative, brown-walled Knoedler gallery last week brought their poodles with them. The women wore full-length minks, the men wore grey ties to match grey suits. They babbled in twelve languages. It was the kind of crowd that Salvador Dali likes best, and there was the Spanish surrealist, who is now 59, in all his gaudy glory. His well-beeswaxed mustachios are a little shorter than they were. But his habitual gilt vest still glittered as he brandished his enameled cane and explained in cryptic Franglais the 30 new works that...
...battle scenes with paint laid on thick enough to thrill a pastry chef. Of course, there was also his super-surrealism, typically in GALACIDALACIDEOXYRIB ONUCLEICACID (Homage to Crick and Watson), a title so long that it resorts to a parenthetical remark. In a slick equation of Botticelli and biochemistry, Dali portrays a translucent God lifting the dead Christ into heaven, superimposed on the molecular structure of life-bearing DNA or deoxynbonucleic acid, the discovery of which led to Nobel Prizes for Drs. Francis Crick and James D. Watson...
...acres in Rockville, Md. They entertain visiting firemen and corpsmen with vigorous hours of softball, touch football and swimming. Shriver is a good tennis player, easily beats Bobby, who is the Kennedy clan's best. He is also an art connoisseur, has a diversified personal collection including Salvador Dali, Kenzo Okada...
...Unexpected Way. His goal from then on was to "produce poetic shock by putting heterogeneous but real things together in an unexpected way." Unlike Salvador Dali, he did not want to paint objects that did not exist in nature; nor did he want to tell stories or bear messages through the use of symbols. And always he was determined to remain loyal to what he felt to be the dictates of composition. One of his pictures, for instance, started out as a painting of a chandelier. It then became a painting of a nude reclining under a chandelier surrounded...