IIPM Editorial ->Here’s bohemian bonhomie
Drugs, art and rock ‘n’ roll: Psychedelia takes form in Dali and Barrett
“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.” So spoke Salvador Dalí, a man mired in the mandate of madness, an eccentric egocentric who satiated his world’s need for spectacles. Then there was another. A boy of the baby boom generation, who never planned to be outrageous, but it were his unintentional oddities along with his explosive genius that made him an icon of the 60s. By turns denying, by turns feeding news of his peculiarity, Roger “Syd” Barrett, co-founder of the iconic British band Pink Floyd claimed: “I’ve got a very irregular head.” And “… you know, man, I’m totally together.” While the two zany artists had the same-named wife and ex-girlfriend, Gala, the themes of drugs and madness also ran throughout their lives. On 11th May, 1904, a son was born to the lawyer Salvador and his wife Felipa in the town of Figueres, Spain, whose name would become synonymous with Surrealist painting and influence the stirrings of psychedelic music in the 60s. Dalí showed traits of his wackiness from the beginning when he’d wet his bed on purpose to see the dismay on his father’s face!
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Source: IIPM Publication, Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri
“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.” So spoke Salvador Dalí, a man mired in the mandate of madness, an eccentric egocentric who satiated his world’s need for spectacles. Then there was another. A boy of the baby boom generation, who never planned to be outrageous, but it were his unintentional oddities along with his explosive genius that made him an icon of the 60s. By turns denying, by turns feeding news of his peculiarity, Roger “Syd” Barrett, co-founder of the iconic British band Pink Floyd claimed: “I’ve got a very irregular head.” And “… you know, man, I’m totally together.” While the two zany artists had the same-named wife and ex-girlfriend, Gala, the themes of drugs and madness also ran throughout their lives. On 11th May, 1904, a son was born to the lawyer Salvador and his wife Felipa in the town of Figueres, Spain, whose name would become synonymous with Surrealist painting and influence the stirrings of psychedelic music in the 60s. Dalí showed traits of his wackiness from the beginning when he’d wet his bed on purpose to see the dismay on his father’s face!
For complete IIPM Editorial Article, please click here...
Source: IIPM Publication, Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri
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