Not really sure where to begin, or what to say, except to explain that between his museum in Figueres and his home in Port Lligat about an hour's drive east, it is pretty easy to see that Spanish painter Salvador Dali was just as surreal in his real life as he was in his painting.
The museum, which Dali said he hoped visitors would leave baffled, is three or four floors (it can be hard to tell) of drawings, a few paintings, and an odd assortment of sculptures, murals, jewelry and just about anything else he could think to throw in there. Dali was buried in a crypt in the museum in 1989. The pictures below are more to give a feel for the museum. For a better look at his work, click here: http://www.google.com/search?q=Salvador+Dali&hl=en&prmd=ivnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=prOtTaS_G43dsgaL8qnXDA&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=647
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| The picture of Lincoln is pixelated in real life |
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| The picture is designed to be looked at through its reflection in the bottle |
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| The camera had difficulty with the focus, unfortunately |
As strange as the museum was, his former house was strange on a whole new level. You are greeted in the first room by a huge stuffed white bear and wind your way through his bedroom, which is on two levels with mirrors propped up so he could view the sunrise from bed. It also features a cage to hold birds and a much smaller cage in which he kept a cricket. Later on there is a stuffed rhino head with eagle wings behind it. He has a swimming pool kind of in the shape of a penis with random Michelin tire men around it.
But no point in trying to describing it all -- here are the pictures.
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| Welcome home |
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| Note the cricket cage on the wall behind the bird cage. This is the lower tier of his bedroom. |
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| Again with the eggs |
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| Jesus of the Rubbish |
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| If Rhinos could fly |
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| The pool |
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