'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet

'Good' and 'bad' Salvador Dali finally meet

PARIS - The Associated Press
Good and bad Salvador Dali finally meet

The art installation entitled 'Rita Mae West Room' by Spanish artist Salvador Dali is on display during the media preview of the exhibition 'Dali' held at Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, France, 20 November 2012. EPA Photo

A major retrospective of Salvador Dali in Paris aims to rewrite the art history books, reconciling for the first time the last decades of his life - when he was accused of money-making self-publicity through numerous television appearances - with his earlier, respected Surrealist period.
 
The Pompidou Center exhibit, which opens Wednesday, brings together 120 paintings, from his famed 1931 work "The persistence of memory," featuring melted clocks, to later work that’s normally shunned by critics: in TV shows, ads, films and work featuring celebrities like Mae West.
 
The surrealists said "that there was basically a good Dali, the surrealist, and a bad Dali, from 1939 on," said curator Jean-Michel Bouhours. "But the popular TV years were hugely influential on art. He was the initiator of pop art."

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