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America's first black member of Congress, Hiram Revels, died on January 16, 1901.
Revels was born free in North Carolina to free parents and ancestry that were free from before the American Revolution. He first became a barber and then a minister, following in his father's footsteps, ordained in the AME Church, though, while his father was Baptist. He lived and preached in various places throughout the Midwest.
During the Civil War, he served as an Army chaplain, and he recruited and organized two black Union regiments in Maryland and Missouri. In 1865, he left the AME Church and took Methodist Episcopal pulpits in Kansas and Louisiana before landing in Natchez Mississippi, where he founded several black schools.
In 1870, the Mississippi legislature elected him to finish a term in the US Senate. The Democrats in the Senate challenged his appointment and argued against seating him. It came to a party-line vote, with all the Democrats voting against and Republicans voting for. Revels became the first black man to become a sitting member of Congress. In his short, one-year, term, he advocated for compromise, moderation, and equality, and he was praised as an orator. Upon leaving the Senate, he served as the first president of Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State).
Capitol Men is the story of Reconstruction through the lives of the first black members of Congress.
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America's first black member of Congress, Hiram Revels, died on January 16, 1901.
Revels was born free in North Carolina to free parents and ancestry that were free from before the American Revolution. He first became a barber and then a minister, following in his father's footsteps, ordained in the AME Church, though, while his father was Baptist. He lived and preached in various places throughout the Midwest. From 1870 to 1871, he represented Mississippi in the US Senate as the first black ever to serve in Congress. Upon leaving the Senate, he served as the first president of Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State).
Alcorn University was the first black land grant college in the US. It started with three buildings in Norman Mississippi in 1871. In 1878, the name was changed to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. It became Alcorn State University in 1874.
At first, Alcorn was opened only to black males, but women were admitted in 1895. Today, the school offers degree programs in over 50 areas and has a student body of about 3,500.
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America's first black member of Congress, Hiram Revels, died on January 16, 1901.
Revels was born free in North Carolina to free parents and ancestry that were free from before the American Revolution. He first became a barber and then a minister, following in his father's footsteps, ordained in the AME Church, though, while his father was Baptist. He lived and preached in various places throughout the Midwest. From 1870 to 1871, he represented Mississippi in the US Senate as the first black ever to serve in Congress.
Political cartoon: Revels (seated) replaces Jefferson Davis (left; dressed as Iago from Shakespeare's Othello) in US Senate. Harpers Weekly, February 19, 1870. Davis had been a senator from Mississippi until 1861.
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Here I go again, ruining another happy childhood memory by reading about one of my favorite childhood authors. English writer T.H. White died on January 17, 1964, in Athens, Greece. Born in 1906 in Bombay, British India, he's most famous for his series of fantasies about the adolescence and adulthood of the legendary King Arthur, together called The Once and Future King, consisting of The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle In the Wind, one of my favorite series. (The Book of Merlyn was published posthumously.)
You may want to sit down for this, but it seems White follows the traditional life arc of a British children's author, that is: miserable, miserable, miserable, writes classic books for children, miserable, miserable, dies miserably and alone. White's father was alcoholic, and his mother was emotionally cold, making for the prerequisite miserable childhood. He died of heart failure aboard a ship in Greece. His papers are, oddly enough, held by the University of Texas, Austin.
One biographer called him "a homosexual and a sado-masochist." Another wrote that "He was a man with an enormous capacity for loving...but he had few close friends, and no genuine relationship with a woman." All relationships were difficult for him due to his upbringing. An acquaintance published an account of a conversation in which White claimed to be attracted to small girls, but the acquaintance believed that talk was just a cover for his repressed homosexuality. Other acquaintances, including entertainer Julie Andrews, believed he struggled against his true homosexuality his entire life, attempting to squash it. His friend and literary agent, however, wrote "Tim was no homosexual, though I think ... he had feared he was." He became a heavy drinker in his later life as well.
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English writer T.H. White died on January 17, 1964, in Athens, Greece. Born in 1906 in Bombay, British India, he's most famous for his series of fantasies about the adolescence and adulthood of the legendary King Arthur, together called The Once and Future King, consisting of The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle In the Wind, one of my favorite series. (The Book of Merlyn was published posthumously.)
Glastonbury England is a prominent location in many myths and legends. Over the years, some have believed that Joseph of Arimathea and a young Jesus Christ visited the town and that Joseph built Glastonbury Abbey after Jesus' death to house the Holy Grail. Some believe that Arthur and his Queen, Guinevere, were buried there and discovered by monks in 1191. The two discovered bodies, found in a hollow log, were reburied in a black marble tomb in 1278, in a solemn ceremony attended by King Edward I.
The Abbey was founded in the 8th century, enlarged in the 10th, and destroyed by a fire in 1184. By the 14th century, it was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. Henry VIII closed the monastery and confiscated its wealth during his newly Protestant reign. The last Abbot of the monastery, Richard Whiting, was hanged, drawn, and quartered as a traitor in 1539.
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English writer T.H. White died on January 17, 1964, in Athens, Greece. Born in 1906 in Bombay, British India, he's most famous for his series of fantasies about the adolescence and adulthood of the legendary King Arthur, together called The Once and Future King, consisting of The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle In the Wind, one of my favorite series. (The Book of Merlyn was published posthumously.)
There are numerous tellings and retellings of the legend of King Arthur, and historians are still divided over question of a real King Arthur, or at least a real inspiration for King Arthur. Because of the large number of stories filtered through multiple sources, times, locations, characters, and storylines are confused. For example, some stories claim that the "sword in the stone" removed by young Arthur to claim his right to rule and the adult King Arthur's enchanted sword, Excalibur, are one and the same. Other stories maintain that they are different swords.
In a nutshell, Arthur obtained the British throne by pulling a sword from an anvil sitting atop a stone that appeared in a churchyard on Christmas Eve. In this account, as foretold by the wizard Merlin, the act could not be performed except by "the true king", meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon.
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English playwright and author A A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882, in London and died in 1956. He was primarily a playwright, and he served in the British Army in both World Wars. However, much to his annoyance throughout his life, he became most famous for his two books inspired by his son's favorite stuffed bear toy called Edward, better known as Winnie-the-Pooh.
Fun facts about Milne: one of his teachers was H.G. Wells, and Milne played regularly on two amateur cricket teams consisting mainly of writers. His teammates included J.M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and P.G. Wodehouse. In the 1920s, he began publishing the Pooh stories and poems that he told his son Christopher Robin, and they quickly overshadowed his accomplished career as a playwright and a screenwriter for some of the earliest British motion pictures, causing him to resent the Pooh works.
But his resentment was no match for Christopher Robin's. The boy became a celebrity of sorts, and, as a result, he was constantly bullied in boarding school. After service in WWII, he found it hard to adjust to adulthood and blamed the Pooh fame. He once said that his father had found fame by "climbing upon my infant shoulders." Because of the things he said in public about his childhood and because he married his first cousin, he grew estranged from his parents, hardly speaking to them, in fact, not speaking to his mother the last 15 years of her life.
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English playwright and author A A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882, in London and died in 1956. He was primarily a playwright, and he served in the British Army in both World Wars. However, much to his annoyance throughout his life, he became most famous for his two books inspired by his son's favorite stuffed bear toy called Edward, better known as Winnie-the-Pooh.
Pooh was purchased at Harrods department store in London and given by A. A. Milne to his son on his first birthday, August 21, 1921. He was called Edward (proper form of Teddy) Bear at the time. The rest of the toys were received as gifts by Christopher Robin between 1920 and 1928. Not only Christopher Robin played with the toys; so, apparently, did the family dog, which may have contributed to their well-worn appearance. The baby kangaroo stuffed animal (named Roo) was lost in an apple orchard during the 1930s. The stuffed animals range in height from 25" (Eeyore, the biggest) to 4 1/2" (Piglet, the smallest).
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English playwright and author A A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882, in London and died in 1956. He was primarily a playwright, and he served in the British Army in both World Wars. However, much to his annoyance throughout his life, he became most famous for his two books inspired by his son's favorite stuffed bear toy called Edward, better known as Winnie-the-Pooh.
And, yes, there's always room for more resentment. Shephard came to regret Winnie-the-Pooh, believing that it overshadowed his other, more worthy, works.
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I've been trying to work this book in for a while.. Since I can't find a "Today in History" that works for me, it fits just fine here. Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the biggest books of 2017, and in May 2023, a Martin Scorsese film adaptation is set to be released.
The Osage Nation story is similar to that of many other tribes. They originally lived in the Midwest but were forced west in the early 18th century as the Iroquois moved west from the eastern Great Lakes. They speak a Siouan language and refer to themselves as the Dhegian, "mid-waters," referring to their homeland between the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. They settled in Kansas until forced to move to Oklahoma, "Indian Territory." Like other tribes, their reservation land was poor and unwanted by white settlers. Then, in the early 20th century, oil was discovered on Osage land, and the Osage became one of the wealthiest groups of people in America.
Osage wealth, however, meant that the Osage were targeted by con men, grifters, thieves, and murderers during the 1920s, a period called the "Reign of Terror" by the Osage. In 2011, the Nation received a settlement from the Federal Government for the mismanagement and manipulation they endured, following a nearly 12 year long court battle.
If you haven't read Killer Moon, I highly recommend it
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I've been trying to work this book in for a while.. Since I can't find a "Today in History" that works for me, it fits just fine here. Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the biggest books of 2017, and in May 2023, a Martin Scorsese film adaptation is set to be released.
Today's Osage Nation is bordered by the Cherokee, Muscogee, Pawnee, and Kaw Nations. It has about 20,000 total enrolled members, with about 6,800 living within the Nation's jurisdiction.
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I've been trying to work this book in for a while.. Since I can't find a "Today in History" that works for me, it fits just fine here. Killers of the Flower Moon was one of the biggest books of 2017, and in May 2023, a Martin Scorsese film adaptation is set to be released.
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"The Bureau of Investigation (BOI) was created on July 26, 1908. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including some veterans of the Secret Service, to work for a new investigative agency. Its first "chief" (the title is now "director") was Stanley Finch. Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908.
The bureau's first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act" or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation.
The following year, 1933, the BOI was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI); it became an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)."
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On January 20, 1942, in a luxury resort villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, fifteen Nazi officials met to draft a plan for carrying out the "Final Solution to the Jewish problem."
Mass exterminations of Jews, Roma, and other "undesirables" had already been taking place as the Germans occupied eastern Europe, but in July 1941, Hermann Goering authorized SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich
to draft and submit a plan and to coordinate the participation of all the relevant government and military participants. In addition to the mass exterminations of Jews and Roma, the Hunger Plan was to be carried out, intentionally starving 30 million eastern Europeans to death to open up their land to German settlement.
Led by Heydrich, the men only required 90 minutes to draft a thorough plan that set out procedures and agency responsibilities, and it spelled out how to handle each occupied country's Jewish population and the children of Jewish and non-Jewish parents. The agreement, of course, uses euphemisms for mass murder, like "final solution," "liquidation," and "emigrating east," but the participants knew that "emigrating east" meant to death camps in Poland.
Mark Roseman's The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution gives readers insights into the meeting, the plan, and the men involved.
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On January 20, 1942, in a luxury resort villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, fifteen Nazi officials met to draft a plan for carrying out the "Final Solution to the Jewish problem."
The location, the Wannsee Villa, had been purchased in 1940 by the German government. It had been built in 1914 by a German pharmaceutical manufacturer, Ernst Marlier, designed by one of Hitler's favorite architects, Paul Baumgarten. Marlier lost his fortune in the early 1900s when the government declared his medicines to be frauds and forbade their sale. He was forced to sell the villa to industrialist Friedrich Minoux in 1921.
Today, the property is a memorial and museum of the Holocaust
Mark Roseman's The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution gives readers insights into the meeting, the plan, and the men involved.
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On January 20, 1942, in a luxury resort villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, fifteen Nazi officials met to draft a plan for carrying out the "Final Solution to the Jewish problem."
The final product of the conference, the Wannsee Protocol, laid out in detail, but not too much detail, the "Final Solution" and how it was to be carried out.
"At the conclusion of the meeting Heydrich gave Eichmann firm instructions about what was to appear in the minutes. They were not to be verbatim: Eichmann ensured that nothing too explicit appeared in them. He said at his trial: "How shall I put it – certain over-plain talk and jargon expressions had to be rendered into office language by me". Eichmann condensed his records into a document outlining the purpose of the meeting and the intentions of the regime. He stated at his trial that it was personally edited by Heydrich, and thus reflected the message he intended the participants to take away from the meeting. Copies of the minutes (known from the German word for "minutes" as the "Wannsee Protocol"[e]) were sent by Eichmann to all the participants after the meeting. Most of these copies were destroyed at the end of the war as participants and other officials sought to cover their tracks. It was not until 1947 that Luther's copy (number 16 out of 30 copies prepared) was found by Robert Kempner, a U.S. prosecutor in the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office."
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James Beard is perhaps the most revered name in the American culinary world, up there with Michelin practically. James Beard Award-nominated chefs, restaurants, and cookbooks are lauded and the achievements are repeated in all resumes and introductions thereafter.
Born in 1903, Beard died on January 21, 1985. He grew up in Portland and along the Oregon coast, and his first memory is of the food at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, when he was two. Sickly as a child, he grew up learning to cook from his mother and the family's Chinese cook in their small family-owned hotel.
After time spent traveling across Europe and joining a theatrical group, he returned to the US and attempted a career in acting and/or costume and set design. Unlucky in show business, he found his calling in catering. He published his first cookbook in 1940 and hosted perhaps the first cooking show in America, "I Love to Eat," in 1946 and 1947. From there, he became America's greatest and most respected culinary expert. He championed American cooking, using fresh simple ingredients. He is credited with making America aware of its own distinctly American cuisine. He was no snob, recognizing greatness in the most expensive restaurants and at roadside diners.
The James Beard Foundation continues his mission, recognizing the best chefs, restaurants, and cookbooks in America annually.
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James Beard is perhaps the most revered name in the American culinary world, up there with Michelin practically. James Beard Award-nominated chefs, restaurants, and cookbooks are lauded and the achievements are repeated in all resumes and introductions thereafter.
Born in 1903, Beard died on January 21, 1985. He was born in Portland where his British-born mother ran a small hotel; his father worked in the city's customs office. They vacationed frequently in Gearhart Oregon on the coast, where he was exposed to coastal cuisine.
Common ingredients of this cuisine are salmon, shellfish, and other fresh seafood; game meats such as moose, elk, or venison; mushrooms, berries, small fruits, potatoes, and wild plants such as fiddleheads or young pushki (Heracleum maximum, or cow parsnip).
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James Beard is perhaps the most revered name in the American culinary world, up there with Michelin practically. James Beard Award-nominated chefs, restaurants, and cookbooks are lauded and the achievements are repeated in all resumes and introductions thereafter.
"The James Beard Foundation is a New York City–based national non-profit culinary arts organization named in honor of James Beard, a prolific food writer, teacher, and cookbook author, who was also known as the "Dean of American Cookery." The programs run the gamut from elegant guest-chef dinners to scholarships for aspiring culinary students, educational conferences, and industry awards. In the spirit of James Beard's legacy, the foundation not only creates programs that help educate people about American cuisine, but also support and promote the chefs and other industry professionals who are behind it.
The foundation was started in 1986 by Peter Kump, a former student of James Beard who also founded the Institute of Culinary Education. At Julia Child's suggestion, Kump purchased Beard's New York brownstone townhouse at 167 West 12th Street in Greenwich Village and preserved it as a gathering place where the general public and press alike would be able to appreciate the talents of established and emerging chefs. The first such dinner was at the suggestion of Wolfgang Puck in 1987. Puck cooked a dinner to raise money and Kump later established it as a monthly event."
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D.W. Griffith was born in Kentucky on January 22, 1875 and died in Hollywood in 1948.
Griffith is considered one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of the motion picture. His short "In Old California" was the first film shot in Hollywood, in 1910. He invented many camera shots and editing techniques that revolutionized filmmaking. He also created the film considered the first full length motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." Studio bosses fought his plans because it was believed that longer movies would damage the audience's eyes.
Unfortunately, while "The Birth of A Nation" is considered groundbreaking and pioneering film history, it's message and effects forever stained Griffith's legacy. The movie, based on a best-selling novel, is set in the Reconstruction South where black Republican politicians are depicted as shrewd, conniving, murdering, and raping criminals terrorizing the poor downtrodden whites. The KKK rides in to fight the evil-doers and rescue white society, particularly white womanly virtue. The movie was a massive box office hit, especially after President Woodrow Wilson screened it in the White House (first White House movie). A former history professor at Princeton, Wilson proclaimed the film "like writing history with lightning" and "all so terribly true." At Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915, about a dozen men were moved by the film to burn crosses and re-form the Ku Klux Klan fir the 20th century.
The NAACP and other black (and a few white) organizations protested the movie and fought its release in cities across America. Lehr's Stokes' books tell the story of the film and its results.
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D.W. Griffith was born in Kentucky on January 22, 1875 and died in Hollywood in 1948.
Griffith is considered one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of the motion picture. His short "In Old California" was the first film shot in Hollywood, in 1910. He invented many camera shots and editing techniques that revolutionized filmmaking. He also created the film considered the first full length motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." The NAACP and other black (and a few white) organizations protested the movie because of its white supremacy and fought its release in cities across America. Lehr's Stokes' books tell the story of the film and its legacy.
Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, Griffith founded the studio United Artists in 1919 with the goal of enabling actors and directors to make films on their own terms as opposed to the terms of commercial studios. When he heard about their scheme, Richard A. Rowland, head of Metro Pictures, apparently said, "The inmates are taking over the asylum." The studio struggled in its early days, and Griffith dropped out in 1924.
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D.W. Griffith was born in Kentucky on January 22, 1875 and died in Hollywood in 1948.
Griffith is considered one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of the motion picture. His short "In Old California" was the first film shot in Hollywood, in 1910. He invented many camera shots and editing techniques that revolutionized filmmaking. He also created the film considered the first full length motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." The NAACP and other black (and a few white) organizations protested the movie because of its white supremacy and fought its release in cities across America. Lehr's Stokes' books tell the story of the film and its legacy.
One of the techniques that Griffith used a lot was cross-cutting, used to build suspense and to tell parallel stories. "Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and often in the same place. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions, but this is not always the case. Cross-cutting can also be used for characters in a film with the same goals but different ways of achieving them." (Wikipedia)
Griffith did not invent the technique but became its most noted practitioner, first in an adaptation of "The Cricket on the Hearth," by Charles Dickens in 1909.
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My favorite artist, Salvador Dali, died on January 23, 1989 in his home town of Figures Spain. During his life, he had pioneered a new genre of art surrealism, and he had created paintings, sculptures, films, cartoons - practically any medium you can imagine. Perhaps his greatest artistic creation was Salvador Dali, as he became one of the most famous recognizable celebrities of the 20th century, appearing in tv commercials, advertising, talk shows, and even the panel game show "What's My Line?" Newspapers and magazines devoured every detail about him and his eccentricities. Other celebrities sought to be in his circle, even if just for a moment, to bask in his reflection.
There are numerous Dali biographies, Dali & I: The Surreal Story, published in 2008, was written by an art dealer who became a friend and neighbor. Stan Lauryssens revealed much about Dali, including that he didn't produce much of his own work. Dali, like many Renaissance masters, employed artists who did the bulk of the work, especially in later years, and Dali would come along and add a lobster or an ant or maybe just his signature. Lauryssens also claims that the famous Dali moustache was, in the artist's last years, a fake, or actually one of many fake moustaches.
One can go down a deep rabbit hole searching for examples of Dali's bizarreness. Here are just a few.
1. His nearly 50 year marriage to his muse Gala was open and platonic. She had lovers, and he probably died a virgin.
2. He believed that he was the reincarnation of his brother Salvador who died at 22 months. He was born nine months later and named Salvador.
3. He often arranged orgies, including celebrities and sex workers alike, but he never participated, just watched.
4. When traveling, he sometimes required that the hotel suites be stocked with a dozen or two live lobsters.
5. While he never used drugs as far as anyone knows, he could create his own dream-like state to access his subconscious and the hallucinations that he painted.
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My favorite artist, Salvador Dali, died on January 23, 1989 in his home town of Figures Spain. During his life, he had pioneered a new genre of art surrealism, and he had created paintings, sculptures, films, cartoons - practically any medium you can imagine. Perhaps his greatest artistic creation was Salvador Dali, as he became one of the most famous recognizable celebrities of the 20th century, appearing in tv commercials, advertising, talk shows, and even the panel game show "What's My Line?" Newspapers and magazines devoured every detail about him and his eccentricities. Other celebrities sought to be in his circle, even if just for a moment, to bask in his reflection.
There are numerous Dali biographies, Dali & I: The Surreal Story, published in 2008, was written by an art dealer who became a friend and neighbor. Stan Lauryssens revealed much about Dali, including that he didn't produce much of his own work. Dali, like many Renaissance masters, employed artists who did the bulk of the work, especially in later years, and Dali would come along and add a lobster or an ant or maybe just his signature. Lauryssens also claims that the famous Dali moustache was, in the artist's last years, a fake, or actually one of many fake moustaches.
There are at least six official museums dedicated to Salvador Dali, including in his hometown of Figures, Spain, Portlligat Spain, London, Paris, and Berlin. St. Petersburg Florida, about an hour from our home, is home to the Salvador Dali Museum opened in 1982, founded with works owned by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse. The Morses bought their first Dali work in 1943, the same year they met Salvador and Gala, and the two couples became lifelong friends. The museum's collection includes over 2,400 pieces spanning the artist's career.
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My favorite artist, Salvador Dali, died on January 23, 1989 in his home town of Figures Spain. During his life, he had pioneered a new genre of art surrealism, and he had created paintings, sculptures, films, cartoons - practically any medium you can imagine. Perhaps his greatest artistic creation was Salvador Dali, as he became one of the most famous recognizable celebrities of the 20th century, appearing in tv commercials, advertising, talk shows, and even the panel game show "What's My Line?" Newspapers and magazines devoured every detail about him and his eccentricities. Other celebrities sought to be in his circle, even if just for a moment, to bask in his reflection.
My favorite photo of Dali was taken by photographer Philippe Halsman, a long time collaborator and friend who took many photos of the artist and also had the most Life Magazine cover photos, with 101. It's called Dali Atomicus and was taken in 1948. When they first got together, Dali suggested photographing a duck being blown up with dynamite. They settled on three cats, buckets of water, and Dali jumping in the air. With his wife and daughters throwing the cats and water and the other objects manipulated with wire, it took 26 tries to get what he wanted.
Halsman called this style "jumpology," and he actually photographed numerous celebrities jumping into the air, including Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Eva Marie-Saint, Richard Nixon, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
There are numerous Dali biographies, Dali & I: The Surreal Story, published in 2008, was written by an art dealer who became a friend and neighbor. Stan Lauryssens revealed much about Dali, including that he didn't produce much of his own work. Dali, like many Renaissance masters, employed artists who did the bulk of the work, especially in later years, and Dali would come along and add a lobster or an ant or maybe just his signature. Lauryssens also claims that the famous Dali moustache was, in the artist's last years, a fake, or actually one of many fake moustaches.
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