August 19, 2005

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  In the opening sentences of his
  manifest which was published some years before Dali says, "When during
  the history of its culture a people feel the need to cut the ties with
  which it is bound to the logical systems of the past in order to obtain
  an independent mythology - a mythology which perfectly fits its essence
  and its total expression of their biological reality and is recognized
  by the higher elite- then public opinion demands from the pragmatic
  society, considering its own systematic, that the motives for such a
  split is enlightened with traditional and worn out formulas."

  Whilst the world is on fire Dali paints the
  birth of the new human. Frightened, seeking the protection of its
  mother, the child sees a man struggling to escape a plastic egg of
  which the continents drip down. Here stands the new symbol of a new
  order, a new beginning for a new and perfect world. The painting is a
  plea for a radical liberation from the oppressive entwinement from the
  past.

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