There are two Salvador Dali exhibits that are currently showing in Shanghai. I went to one with another teacher on Saturday and wanted to share some interesting photos from the day. Definitely a fun and unique afternoon.
The building was mostly reflective surfaces, so we decided to stop and take picture of our reflection in the ceiling. We thought it fit with the theme of surrealism.
You cannot walk into a Dali exhibit without taking a picture with a melting clock.
The building that housed the exhibit, K11, was artistic itself. Gotta love these elephant thing.
No one really could explain why there were a load of eggs and butterflies.
Not to mention the colorful ants...
Coll building, though.
I think bilingual signs are always cooler than monolingual ones.
This picture doesn't make as much sense because I took it from the side, but it is supposed to be a frame of hair, the pictures are the eyes, there is a nose and a mouth. Kind of surreal, don't you think? (pun intended)
One of the paintings that Dali did for a ballet set, Mad Tristan. I liked this one a lot. The picture I took does do it justice, so I bought a 6 RMB postcard with it on it.
Suzanne is, well, the white person. We were examining a reproduction of a ceiling painting that is in Spain.
Abe Lincoln. It is so cool, but so random!! Dali was a Spaniard! You had to look at the painting from 10 meters away in order to see Lincoln.
Dali did a ton of work for a variety of magazines, including Vogue. A lot of the exhibit was his magazine work. I though this was interesting.
Dali's opinion of San Francisco is rather bleak.
Not Dali related, just surrealist. That is a bunch of mannequin legs. Yes, legs.
I loved the quote "every man has as much right to be insane as he has to be sane".
Obvious pun, but I stilled liked it.
There was a section on surrealist Chinese painters. To be honest, they weren't surrealist at all....this is the closet it got.
Giant strawberry.
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