LACMA Features Salvador Dali in October

"The Temptation of St. Anthony" (1946) via Wikipedia

My apartment manager's LACMA newsletter arrived with my mail a few days ago (he used to live in my unit), and before I redelivered it, I caught sight of something that got me a little excited. Starting Oct. 14th, the museum is featuring Dali: Painting & Film, a special exhibit with the purpose of examining the relationship between Salvador Dali's films and his paintings. Dali is known for being one of the earliest artists heavily influenced by film, stemming from a fascination with images blending into others. He collaborated with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock (Spellbound), Luis Bunuel (Un chien andalou) and even Walt Disney (Destino), but also created many of his own avant-garde films fraught with Freudian themes, surrealism and nightmarish images, (Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou is notorious for featuring a woman's eyeball being sliced with a razor). His influence is apparent later in certain film sequences in the 50s and 60s; LACMA sites the nightmare sequence from original Father of the Bride and "the hallucinatory aesthetic" of Fantasic Voyage. The exhibit will feature about a hundred works along with his film projects, project notes and paraphernalia.

I sense the films are going to disturb me, but I know I'll love the paintings.

The exhibit runs through January 6th, and ticket are $17 (or $12 after 5pm) on weekdays, and $20 (or $15 after 5pm) weekends.