Miguel Almagro - Audiovisuals

SURPASREALISTE

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The Paranoiac critical method: The images were produced using what he called the “paranoiac critical” method, which Dali explained as a “spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on critical and systematic objectivation of delirious associations and interpretations.”
The paranoiac-critical method was simple. The artist tricks himself into going insane, while somewhere deep within remembering that the reason for the insanity is to create a great work of art. Dali chose to do it the hard way — by actually going mad, rather than simulating madness through chemical means. “I don’t take drugs. I am drugs,” he once explained.

Duration: 4m.
Credits: Music by Xavier.