It is said that Dalí and Gala once found a little bunny rabbit and they kept it as a pet. But since they usually, come November, left to spend the winters in the United States, they did not know what to do with their furry little pet. So, Gala called their cook and said to him, «tomorrow we have stuffed rabbit». The poor cook had to comply and with sadness in his heart and tears in his eyes, he cooked the rabbit. His tears rolled down his cheeks as he served Dalí and Gala the meat of what had been their beloved little pet.
And, to be able to create (see below) «Dalí Atomicus«. This 1948 photograph by Phillipe Halsman required 26 attempts, where they threw three cats and water into the air. How little regard for these poor animals they both showed.
A final anecdote is that Dalí often organised bullfights, and in one of them, he took and filled a dummy bull with live cats and bags filled with fish into the round and with some pyrotechnic devise blew it up so that the live animals inside would fly through the air landing on the spectators. Of course all of this was «surrealistic» and created by the self-named «genius» of modern art.
So, if you want to know why I have such a strong distaste for this non-genius, well here are some of them…
See also: Art History in One Minute (videos): Dalí
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