"Dali Greets the World"

[Niklas Wahlberg]

At 02:34 2001.04.10 +0000, Emily R Echols wrote:
>I found this quote in a book compiled and edited by Joseph Head and S.L.
>Cranston:
>                 [The following estract from an article "Dali Greets the
>                 World" by Ben Martin appeared in teh N.Y. Herald Tribune's
>                 magazine Today's Living for January 24, 1960, being a
>                 report of an interview with this famous artist:]
>
>         [Dali stated]:  "If you will study the entire series of cards [he
>had painted] you will find one theme runs through most almost all--the
>butterfly.  The butterfly is not present only because it is in iteself a
>thing of beauty.  It is present because to one of the greatest Spanish
>mystics, St. Theresa of Avila, the butterfly was the symbol of the soul.
>The ugly, ungainly caterpillar, our body, enters a form of the grave, the
>cocoon.  Out of this death emerges the butterfly--beautiful, free, no
>longer earthbound.  To me, as to St. Theresa, the butterfly is the soul of
>man."

I wonder what caterpillar Dali was thinking of? I find all butterfly and 
moth larvae quite beautiful!

Cheers,
Niklas


Niklas Wahlberg
Department of Zoology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
SWEDEN

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