>>3989429No he wasn't, his art is just post produced pictures, he was just pretending to be fucked to sell, he just stood with the idea that surrealist things just doesn't have to make sense, any rich dude just wants something that is popular, check actual psychiatric patients art, they don't lie, their art are a kin to their own experiences, their abusive life etc.
On his last days he just lived to sign black pieces of paper, other painters Isidoro Bea and Antoni Pitxot made about half of "dali art" his wife (muse) was his administrator and the one that created his persona, their last works are actually signed "Dali-Gala", there is a lot of media about this but its in spanish and i haven't found it in english.
I'm not saying the guy isn't symbolic or has his own thing, but look at its paintings and you can find a lot of fucked up perspective (pic related), the guy actually envied picasso's success. He wanted to be like Diego Velazques hence his appearance, he though the best painter in history is Johannes Vermeer.