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A paper which looks at the social and political influences on Dali's life and works, especially his support for Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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and it is necessary to consider all of these in conjunction with one another to understand how they form the foundation of his particular interpretation of surrealism. It is frequently
asserted, for example, that Dali suffered from one or possible more forms of mental illness - Etherington-Smith mentions his phobias and masochism, for instance - and one could perhaps assert
that as insanity is defined through what society says it is, such deviations from the norm could well be construed as a reaction to social and cultural influences.
At the same time, it is evident that there are certain
elements in Dalis background and his life which could hardly help but result in a distorted view of his environment: his childhood, and his relationship with Gala, for example. ART20
(2003) makes the point, however, that he had the support of Freud, who considered him the most interesting of the Surrealists (a genre which, surprisingly enough, he evidently found confusing).
Dali himself appears to have been of the opinion that art could best be created by the mad, provided that the individual retained sufficient sanity to recall at all times
that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, however, were seen as extreme, and certainly made a major
contribution to the way in which he interacted with others.
Short (2003) for example refers particularly to his attitude towards the fascist political movements of the 1930s, which were a major focus of the political divide between left
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