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Dali the unknown.
“The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.
Jean Jacques Dumur, historian and lecturer, presents Dali: “The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad”. When Salvador Dali (1904-1989) spoke of himself in this way, he was painting the scene of his life. No other artist has had such an impact on the history of surrealist painting and modern art. Steeped in Freudian theories and deeply marked by a complicated childhood, he invented a method of spontaneous creation that he called “critical paranoia”. For more than 70 years, the Master assumed his eccentricities and imposed his creative “genius” to be recognised today as an essential artist who still fascinates us today with the questions he poses as an artist, certainly, but as an individual with an extraordinary personality.
