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Salvador Dali To Be Disinterred Over Alleged Daughter's Lawsuit


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The body of legendary artist Salvador Dali is being forced to be exhumed by court order after a woman claiming to be his biological daughter takes action against the country of Spain over the charge of his estate. The decision is being appealed by the Dali Foundation.

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60-year-old Maria Pilar Abel Martínez, a Girona-born tarot card reader, has insisted that her mother Antonia had an affair with the painter when she was working as a maid. The romance allegedly took place in 1955, a year before Maria was born. 

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Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Takashi Murakami Saturday 20th August 2011 Thomas Kramer attends Red Carpet Auction Events presents 'Convergence of the Arts' featuring a multi-million dollar collection of rare fine art, collectibles and sculpture up for bid, including originals by Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Salvador Dali Kaufman, Wesselman, Agam, Rockwell, Mel Ramos, Erte, Pino and Romero Britto, held at Fillmore on Miami Beach Miami Beach, Florida

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Un Chien Andalou Review


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It was released in 1929, but it still has the power to make audiences cringe today and it may remain the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made. Called by director Luis Buñuel a "call to murder," and born of the Surrealist movement in art, Un Chien Andalou is one of the chief cultural artifacts from a time when film aspired to something larger than mere storytelling.

There is no plot, per se, but rather an amalgamation of images centering on a romance seemingly being conducted between the film's leads. Although Buñuel subverts every expectation that a viewer might bring to the film (time moves arbitrarily forward and backward, characters vanish and reappear, and the action remains stubbornly illegible), the images he uses to convey his deeper meanings remain passionate, resonant, and alarmingly, weirdly sexual to this day. These deeper meanings have to do with the innate drives sublimated to society, and in Un Chien Andalou they pop out everywhere with horrifying insistence: ants crawl from a hole in a human hand, pubic hair grows on faces, and, in the film's most infamous passage, an eyeball is slit with a razor just as a cloud cuts across the face of the moon. It's unsettling at least, but it also genuinely hypnotizes.

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