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Beyond heaving an occasional rhetorical rock at his fellow artists for misunderstanding him, Salvador Dali has been strangely quiet for the past six months, living in seclusion in his villa at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what he regards as his masterpiece. It is a large (7½ft. by 4⅔ ft.) Madonna which Dali calls in Latin Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (The Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being...
...with the personality of Hitler, which always came to me as a woman . . . The softness of that Hitlerian flesh under his military tunic created in me a state of gustatory, milky, nutritious, Wagnerian ecstasy, which made my heart beat violently." This vision had nothing to do with politics, says Dali, but he soon found himself defending his position at a meeting of French surrealists...
...meeting . . . was memorable." Dali spent most of the session on his knees, he says, "not pleading against expulsion but exhorting [them] to understand that my obsession with Hitler was strictly paranoiac and apolitical...
...surrealists just didn't understand. Says Dali: "Someone like me, who pretended to be a true madman, living and organized . . . was not allowed to exist." He was drummed out of the surrealist circle...
...obsession, he adds, lasted until the Führer's death. He happened to be taking his temperature when the news came. For exactly 17 minutes he lay there thinking, thermometer in mouth. When he rose, his temperature was fine; both Hitler and surrealism were dead phases, and Dali formulated his new line: "I believe that I am the savior of modern art, the only one capable of sublimating, integrating and rationalizing all the revolutionary experiences of modern times in the great classical tradition of realism and mysticism, which is the supreme and glorious mission of Spain...