Dali Museum

Saturday 5 March 2011
Salvador Dali was for awhile the surrealist artist extraordinaire, or just a little eccentric. BJ and I both agreed the best painting of his in the museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, was Columbus and the New World. Actually, I thought most of his stuff was mildly boring. His life was crazy but he was good at self promotion. He liked to do things with his thin little moustache such as wax it into a figure 8 or straight up to the level of his pupils. We saw lots of melting watches. I was surprised to learn he turned away from modern art as to lacking in spirituality. His last works were more theological in tone. He also had a very interesting portrait of Abraham Lincoln that at first glance was a scantily clad young lady, but if you stood way back, squinted, and allowed for pixilization you could actually see Honest Abe's portrait. But we are now out of Orlando and meandering our way toward the Florida keys. We are camping in Venice, Florida tonight and it is hot.