A chronicle of our life in Brugge... "Close to the region where the Champagne grapes grow, the land is also golden with barley; France begins to sound Flemish, and blends into Belgium; the wine nations yield to the beer lands.....the respect and the ceremony that other nations reserve for wine, the Belgians also accord, with a special flourish, to beer." - Jackson
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Salvador Dali Exhibition
At the weekend we went to the Dali Exhibition under the Belfry Tower in Bruges.
There were not many paintings but there were a lot of prints and sketches that weren't previously published. Nevertheless, we found it both inspiring and slightly disturbing. It also would have helped if there were more descriptions about Dali's life and his work.
The exhibition included Dali's interpretation of Alice In Wonderland. In 1969 he did 12 illustrations based on the story.
If you look carefully, throughout the paintings, you can see a small image of a girl in a dress with a skipping rope or umbrella above her head. We believe this is Alice and found it very interesting to see her appear in the paintings before us.
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