Bizarre tales in art
Even in this breed of unconventionalism, there is a certain hierarchy that exists. There are those who manage to survive the normalities of life, and then, there are those whose eccentricities have intrigued the world as much as their artworks have. Think of weird antics, and the first name to pop up on one's mind has to be the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. Whether it was his signature waxed upturned moustache, his belief that he was the reincarnation of his dead brother, or walking with an anteater in Paris, the man was known to shock people with his stunts. But Dali reached a new level of abnormality when he filled a Rolls-Royce Phantom II with tonnes of cauliflower and drove to Paris to give a lecture. While we may gasp at the audacity of it all, Dali intended to make a statement about wealth and the transience of life by stuffing a symbol of luxury with a common vegetable.
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