What, you again, Holy Dalí!
Still hanging around, maestro?
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Continued from here.
Three years later Dalí was back on the cross. He must have enjoyed his earlier crucifixion.
This time the nuclear motif was more pronounced (just as it was in the real world).
Returning from New York, Dalí was disembarking from the steamship America in Le Harve on March 27, 1953, when a mob of reporters in search of slow-news-day pablum asked him, “What’s up?” He didn’t let them down.
He was about to paint a sensation, he said, an exploding Christ, nuclear and hypercubic, the first picture ever painted with a classical technique and an academic formula but actually composed of cubic elements.
“Why would you want to depict Christ exploding?” a newshound wondered aloud.
“I don’t know yet. See the rest.
