My Fascination With Dali: Episode # 1

About this episode

Carolyn Botelho shares her fascination with Salvador Dali and the influences of music and literature on her appreciation of art.

I discovered this genius in high school, or was it somewhere in the collective consciousness that I saw his melting clocks? I’m not certain, but I know when I found this eclectically strange human with his peculiar moustache, his Spanish background, I was hooked. At the time I was getting into the band The Doors, and Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Brave New World, and The Perennial Philosophy. It was an electric t...

People in this episode

Host: Carolyn Botelho

Topics covered

• Salvador Dali
• art history
• influence of music
• literature
• surrealism

Keywords

• Dali
• melting clocks
• The Doors
• Aldous Huxley
• surrealism
• art
• influence

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Doors of Perception, Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy

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