JustVan

JustVan t1_ismobqa wrote

Reply to comment by givealittle in TIL artist Salvador Dali illustrated a 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland, with only 2,700 copies printed. It included twelve illustrations and a front-cover etching signed by Dali himself. Signatures of Dali can be spotted throughout, such as the melting clock found at the Mad Tea Party. by PianoCharged

I mean, it mentions it... doesn't explain why it's there. Or why it's there so many times. Or why the rest of the art looks like shit.

I hope the guy who commissioned them was happy with them, lol.

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JustVan t1_ismjyjl wrote

Reply to TIL artist Salvador Dali illustrated a 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland, with only 2,700 copies printed. It included twelve illustrations and a front-cover etching signed by Dali himself. Signatures of Dali can be spotted throughout, such as the melting clock found at the Mad Tea Party. by PianoCharged

These... aren't even very good drawings... I mean, I know art is subjective, and Dali is a specifically weird artist, but... even for Dali these feel sloppy, unfinished, haphazard, or just like blobs. And what is with the weird repeating image of a girl arms above her head holding a curved thing, with a weird shadow of it? It's like he created some artistic trick and repeated it over and over again like you did with that weird S in junior high.

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