Art

I mean, its understandable. People were commenting about how much they love Dalí before I came in. As much as maybe I would like people to spend more time with other surrealists, Frida Kahlo, Max Ernst, Jean Míro, and the criminally underrated Honoré Sherrer; Dalí has had a lasting effect on people. I'd much rather have someone appreciate art or an artist I don't like for reasons they can't quite describe, than have them not appreciate art at all! It opens peoples minds more than an association with this or that ideology might close them, IMO!

People also don't want to face how separating the work from the worker is how we all get screwed over, its such a natural state of society that we have internalized it without realizing how anti-human it really is. And the hyper individualism that we are brought up in, people do this unconscious calculation of: if Dalí is a fascist, and I like Dalí, then I like a fascist, and i dont like fascists so DOWNVOTE!! -- when the actual social relations are much more complex than that. I'm kinda used to having controversial opinions, even among those who largely agree with me! I think maybe I get a charge out of it, so for that reason alone maybe is worth the down votes.

I guess I'd like it if people looked up non-fascist surrealists, to appreciate in addition to Dalí. But separating the art from the artist in surrealism is so contradictory. Its not like they just painted flowers or houses. They're like "this is what the inside of my mind is like" which is very compelling, and by definition, inseparable from the artist whose mind is being depicted in their own work