Salvador Dali
<p>patron <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James" title="Edward James">Edward James</a></p>
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In 1938, Dalí met <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a> thanks to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig" title="Stefan Zweig">Stefan Zweig</a>.</p>
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Also in 1938, Dalí unveiled <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainy_Taxi" title="Rainy Taxi">Rainy Taxi</a></i>, a three-dimensional artwork, consisting of an actual automobile with two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannequin" title="Mannequin">mannequin</a> occupants. The piece was first displayed at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_du_Surr%C3%A9alisme" title="Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme">Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme</a>, organised by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton" title="André Breton">André Breton</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eluard" title="Paul Eluard" class="mw-redirect">Paul Eluard</a>. The Exposition was designed by artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp" title="Marcel Duchamp">Marcel Duchamp</a>, who also served as host.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup></p>
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Dalí completed only one other film in his lifetime, <i>Impressions of Upper Mongolia</i> (1975), in which he narrated a story about an expedition in search of giant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_mushrooms" title="Hallucinogenic mushrooms" class="mw-redirect">hallucinogenic mushrooms</a>. The imagery was based on microscopic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uric_acid" title="Uric acid">uric acid</a> stains on the brass band of a ballpoint pen on which Dalí had been urinating for several weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD#cite_note-82">[82]</a></sup></p>
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Dalí worked with other famous filmmakers, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a>. The most well-known of his film projects is probably the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_sequence" title="Dream sequence">dream sequence</a> in Hitchcock's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_%281945_film%29" title="Spellbound (1945 film)">Spellbound</a></i>, which heavily delves into themes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">psychoanalysis</a>. Hitchcock needed a dreamlike quality to his film, which dealt with the idea that a repressed experience can directly trigger a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurosis" title="Neurosis">neurosis</a>, and he knew that Dalí's work would help create the atmosphere he wanted in his film. He also worked on a documentary called <i>Chaos and Creation</i>, which has a lot of artistic references thrown into it to help one see what Dalí's vision of art really is.</p>
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Dalí also worked with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> on the short film production <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destino" title="Destino">Destino</a></i>. Completed in 2003 by Baker Bloodworth and Walt's nephew <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_E._Disney" title="Roy E. Disney">Roy E. Disney</a>, it contains dreamlike images of strange figures flying and walking about. It is based on Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez' song "Destino". When Disney hired Dalí to help produce the film in 1946, they were not prepared for the quantity of work that lay ahead. For eight months, they worked on it continuously, until their efforts had to stop when they realized they were in financial trouble. However, it was eventually finished 48 years later, and shown in various film festivals. The film consists of Dalí's artwork interacting with Disney's character animation.</p>
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<i>The Man Who Turned On the World</i>, p. 109 by Michael Hollingshead</p>
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