Thanksgiving this year was not bad at all. I suppose one of the few perks of living in a divorced family is you get to celebrate the holidays twice. That was certainly the case at my mother's place. A week before dinner and the parade in NY, we went with Mrs. Stack (her boyfriend's mom) to visit an exhibition at the Dali museum in St. Petersburg.
In addition to Salvador's works, there were also several guest pieces by Pablo Picasso. The masters of surrealism and cubism both hailed from Spain, had become fast friends in Paris (then the capital of the art world), and were equally famous contemporaries in life. Where Dali dived deep into the craziest corners of subconscious, Picasso exaggerated anything and everything by painting them in his trademark fusion of 2D and 3. As expected, each painting was a marvel all its own. Dali's atomic love letter Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory clashed with preliminary sketches of Guernica, Pablo's famous reaction to the insanity of war. Despite being two of the greatest artists of the last century (perhaps all time), neither could match up to the greatest painter straight outta Spain, Diego Velasquez. Even so, I was very amused at Picasso's rendition of Princess Margarita from Las Meninas.
The night was made complete by a stand-up show featuring mom's boyfriend.
Good thing we visited before Thanksgiving. If I had seen the rest of Salvador's work, I'd lose more than just lunch... ;)
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