Dali Planet #38: Riot at the cinema
When “L’Age d’Or” premiered at Studio 28 in Paris in 1930, accompanied by a surrealist exhibition in the lobby, the right-wing League of Patriots rioted in protest and destroyed many of the works on display. The film was promptly banned, but Dali’s ties to the surrealist were forged in violence, even as co-founder Andre Breton shuddered at Dali’s political conservatism. Above is Dali’s 1924 portrait of his collaborator in the cinema of the provocative, Luis Bunuel.
Dali showed his team spirit by designing the cover for the Second Surrealist Manifesto and published his own manifesto in rhyme called “L’Ane Pourri” in the magazine Le Surrealisme au Service de la Revolution, in which he first unveiled his theory of the paranoiac-critical method — a spontaneous mode of irrational understanding, seeing something two different ways, implying a revelation of its true nature.
