Years ago, I had a weird dream. Two of my favorite artists, John Haley Bellamy and Salvador Dali, were sitting with me in a coffeehouse discussing art. I merely sat by and listened while the two masters talked. They were deeply involved in a discussion of exaggeration and distortion in art. At one point, they turned to me and asked what I thought. I opened my mouth to speak but woke from the dream that instant.
I spent more than a few hours thinking about that dream and their discussion. Bellamy was famous for his eagles, and Dali was famous for his surrealistic images. The link seemed to be the way images were portrayed by both artists. There were more similarities than you might think when considering how Bellamy accentuated and distorted eagle necks, wingspan and wing proportions for effect.
I began to experiment with the lessons that the masters relayed to me.
There have been no new visits from either Dali or Bellamy yet, but I’ll let you know the next time I meet them at the coffeehouse.
Love this and I wish a couple of masters would relays some lessons to me some day!
I actually ran into Dali when I was a kid…Literally ran into him as I was racing along running someplace. A great missed opportunity.
You do great work, Lou!
Thanks, GP.
I had dreams about Capote when I was struggling with editing my first novel. Ultimately they pointed me to Capote’s writing and I learned all the lessons I need from him. Pretty cool.
He was just such a creep though.
That’s OK. He taught me what I needed to know.