No. He ‘was’ thoroughly involved with his own narcissism, youthfully paranoid about it for a while which did force him to explore it’s nature through that paranoia. So much so that he had his rich sponsor and money bags arrange a meeting with Freud so he might understand his affliction further.

The wasn’t a mirror that Sally didn’t pass — they always stopped him.

Dali is one of those artist that the elites sponsored in full and made sure their art became important on the global scale. Buffoonery and and a loose canon nature must prevail in the public’s understanding of what artist are…which is quite opposite to what an artist is…

Elites use art as a means of investment and propaganda.

“Art criticism should not make any judgment of the person who created the art. It is especially sophomoric to criticize an artist […] because you can stick a brand of religion on them and impute motives from that. Imputing lunacy is even more juvenile.”

Really?

Sophomoric?

Hah…you place artists on such a level and really most of us are pure asshole. Can we include Hitler in that — artists shouldn’t be criticized category, he was a talented fellow. His works some 300 plus have sold for over a hundred thousand dollars. Or how about Egon Shiele he was a pedophile and murdered, as did the great Caravaggio; Banksy graffiti in public spaces; Picasso stole art and it is reported sodomized a dog once, carried a gun and shot a number of men in street brawls in the early days in Paris.

One of my favorites — an outsider artist named Richard Dadd killed his father in a rage.

A great number of artists have been pedophiles, should we criticize their carnal perversion.

“He was always seeking to escape the matrix […]”

On the contrary he was always front and center of any elite formal gathering, his patron Edward made sure of that, as I say he was the Lady Gaga of his period, the court harlequin, and loved the matrix and his elite status as an important global artist. He was a celebrity that was on the Rolodex and brought to those publicized meeting of the elites.

“I would say the majority of religious seekers are looking for more normalcy, not less.”

That’s simply your atheism showing and distaste of Catholicism. Like Jon and most around you have be propagandized to believe priests are pedophiles. That ‘is’ a psyche-op of profound planning and operation. a means of killing faith and dis-empowering the symbol of the cross.

Faith is what drives religious seekers not normalcy. The faithful know they are living in an unfolding kind of hell and end time.

Christians learned long ago how to be persecuted.

Perverse artists have tried as you and Jon do to demote Christianity as meaningless and taught by pedophiles and they, where sponsored in the process, as in “Piss Christ”.
But one will find that the crucifix is not a dark frozen symbol as say the Nike slash. The cross bears two millennium of salvation. It is more a spirit/mind connection than the actually physical object

Answer this, “Why do you think Sally Dali embraced and clung so tightly to his Catholicism, to Christianity in the end. After the fire and Gala’s death he signed blanks; felt his muse had abandoned him. He had wanted to be put in a state of suspended animation because of his great fear of death and a judgement. His learning about Thom’s catastrophe theory, threw his world into chaos and drove him further to religion. Would that not signify that he was craving a normalcy bias? Would that not expose that he was a fake? Would that disclose that he was a pretender and driven more b his vane and narcissistic nature that the working of a fine artist?”

So succinctly put. And it’s true, the core aspect, the madness, of real genius in so many revered artists is gradually lost through the academies over time owing to the gatekeepers’ slick, methodical parameters, biased ‘canonically based’ judgements, and contrivances that disguise their own jealousy of the very mastery that they claim to preserve.

Many of Dali’s paintings expressed narcissism because he was exploring that condition (e.g. Metamorphosis of Narcissus). The world of art attracts money and fame granted by narcissists. You could say the same of the Mercedes Benz. Would they exist if it weren’t for the masses who want to be looked at and admired? I doubt it.

Art criticism should not make any judgment of the person who created the art. It is especially sophomoric to criticize an artist […] because you can stick a brand of religion on them and impute motives from that. Imputing lunacy is even more juvenile.

Dali had the opposite of normalcy bias. He was a normalcy skeptic. Instead of having a pet poodle, he had a pet anteater. He had a unique mustache. Undoubtedly he was not easy to live with. You could say that about most dedicated artists. But forget the man – he’s dead. His art lives on – calling our attention to our fabricated world that runs on the fuel of narcissism, greed, lust, envy, the desire for control. He was always seeking to escape the matrix – see how his paintings often have “holes” to see beyond the subject, or people with drawers that can be pulled open.

His art was purposefully disturbing to jar the viewer out of normalcy bias, even for a moment. The desire for normalcy is why we live in a self-imposed matrix. I would say the majority of religious seekers are looking for more normalcy, not less. A moral framework that produces a stable society. Religious ideals that explain the mystery of existence to quell unconscious fears. Peace, prosperity, tranquility – these are good things. But let’s not pretend that nothing else exists behind the façade of well-being. Behind sanity is latent insanity, behind power is hidden weakness, behind weakness is untapped potential. It goes on forever like a rendering of the Mandelbrot set. There is much to explore.

IF, for whatever reason, you, or your Loved ones, got-the-shot, you may find succor, in but a Moment.

Perhaps, some other fantastically good physical remedy, may be offered in the
future.

But for Now…

Mark 16:18

“They shall take up serpents;
and if they drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them;
they shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover.”

THERE IS, POWER IN PRAYER.
You must believe with All your Heart.

God Bless.
Amen.

You are confused about many other things as well. To wit, Franco was catholic. Gaudi and Dali were patrons of the Catholic Church. In other words all the money that allowed them the freedom to make their art came from the church. Picasso on the other hand fought against fascism.

Christ was not executed on a cross. For proof one need only realize that it is anatomically impossible. Even the most outstanding Olympic gymnast can’t maintain an iron cross for more than a few minutes. The Roman torture stake was designed to prolong the agony for hours.Instead, Christ was impaled on a simple upright stake or pale.

I’ll stop here but the let the record reflect that you entertain many more misconceptions.