One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Along with the markets and antique stores, a visit to museums and galleries are must on your scribe’s travels to the world's cities. A few favourites are The Hermitage, the Uffizi Gallery and Vatican Museums in Italy, the Smithsonian and of course one of my favourites is The Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres in Catalonia. It is a scale piece of surrealist art by Salvador Dali that blows the mind in its beauty and sheer scale.
Where does one start with Salvador Dali? His artistic contributions are housed in all major galleries across the world ranging from sculptures, architecture, lithographs, photography, advertising, film and television, paintings and just general art media craziness. His collaboration with Luis Buñuel in the famous surrealist film “Un Chien Andalou” is mind bending in the extreme and well worth the watch after a few drinks…or other substances!!!!
Your scribe has managed to collect a few items on his life journey that are attributed to Salvador Dali and they are treasured items in the family vault. Except of course the Dali cuff links that are paraded out on the odd occasion. They are a leaf gold mass produced gallery giftshop link but have an intense beauty about them that at first appear to be “non Dali” in their demenour. Look hard and you will see the surrealist tinges of art copying life copying nature.
They were of course were procured as I exited through the gift shop (thanks Banksy) of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. They are worn with a cotton tailored shirt and a silk surrealist MoMA neck tie.
Our Link Man for the day can therefore be non other than Salvador Dali…..legend amongst the Surrealists.
Dali once said “I don’t do drugs…..I am drugs”. Exactly.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Along with the markets and antique stores, a visit to museums and galleries are must on your scribe’s travels to the world's cities. A few favourites are The Hermitage, the Uffizi Gallery and Vatican Museums in Italy, the Smithsonian and of course one of my favourites is The Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres in Catalonia. It is a scale piece of surrealist art by Salvador Dali that blows the mind in its beauty and sheer scale.
Where does one start with Salvador Dali? His artistic contributions are housed in all major galleries across the world ranging from sculptures, architecture, lithographs, photography, advertising, film and television, paintings and just general art media craziness. His collaboration with Luis Buñuel in the famous surrealist film “Un Chien Andalou” is mind bending in the extreme and well worth the watch after a few drinks…or other substances!!!!
Your scribe has managed to collect a few items on his life journey that are attributed to Salvador Dali and they are treasured items in the family vault. Except of course the Dali cuff links that are paraded out on the odd occasion. They are a leaf gold mass produced gallery giftshop link but have an intense beauty about them that at first appear to be “non Dali” in their demenour. Look hard and you will see the surrealist tinges of art copying life copying nature.
They were of course were procured as I exited through the gift shop (thanks Banksy) of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. They are worn with a cotton tailored shirt and a silk surrealist MoMA neck tie.
Our Link Man for the day can therefore be non other than Salvador Dali…..legend amongst the Surrealists.
Dali once said “I don’t do drugs…..I am drugs”. Exactly.
Til Later
ONWARD
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