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After Gibby's mysterious and unwarranted disappearance on Charles Bridge we were finally all reunited in Old Town Square. A celebratory ice cream followed the reunion before we headed to the Salvador Dalí exhibition. Mr Kitzy, Linda and I went to the exhibition and all of us were really impressed by the wide variety and excellence of all the paintings there.
The rooms were sorted into collections, one of which included part of Dalí's Shakespearean series with some amazing etchings and drawings based on the plays of Shakespeare. Another was a chapter by chapter take on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy which, alas, we viewed in reverse from Heaven through Purgatory to Hell. We also saw a print of one of Dalí's famous melting clock paintings as well as some of his crazy sculptures. It was really interesting to see real surrealist paintings as I had never seen any before, and certainly none with Dalí's sense of creativity and imagination. The idea of depth and perspective used in some of the paintings was also amazing and created an almost 3D outlook on a 2 dimensional surface.
Even though the Dalí exhibition was probably the smallest museum I visited it was without a doubt one of my favourites. His unique style as well as idiosyncratic personality seeped through each picture. The actual photographs of him were also fascinating as they depicted him as a sort of eccentric 'mad hatter' figure, and I couldn't help but question whether he was in fact mad in real life. I'm now pretty sure he was: "There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
Anyway, mad or not, Dalí is an incredibly inspirational artist, one who has truly inspired me. It was almost the madness in the paintings which made them so interesting. Although it wasn't one of the many beautiful Czech buildings or in fact part of Prague's complex and fascinating history, I feel really lucky to have visited the exhibition, and hope to see more of his work in the future.
Phoebe Smith
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