Apr 14 2009
“Say Cheese” [i] is not always for smiles – sometimes for paintings.
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.“[ii]
Often we might wonder: “How did the artist come up with that idea?” This pondering is not limited to the “dark” arts, but also to some of the most famous paintings. Camembert and its relative Brie are cheeses whose origin is in France. It is known from Salvatore Dali’s autobiography “Secret Life” that he enjoyed Camembert cheese.
Dali also explained in “Secret life” that he had the idea of the soft watches that appear in the famous “Persistence of memory”, after having eaten a camembert cheese for dinner. This painting was a modification of a landscape that he had not finished, nor enamored. The modification was far better than the original. So cheese is not always for smiles. This link takes you directly to this copyrighted painting.
[i] My research found a number of apparently “copied ideas” which I also found in the original article from which I started researching. Hence, I went further to see if I could find the “true” story of my article. It is a lot less “enhanced” than many of the copied articles imply. It makes one wonder “what happened to true scholarship research?”[ii] Salvatore Dali
