Ancestors Gave on his father's side were from Larsa - a small town in North-East Spain. They say that once he was full of witches, and because the city was waiting for the sad fate: many times the war had struck him to the ground.
In the early NINETEENTH century one of lerski Dali moved in cadaqués, border Spanish village on the coast, separated from the rest of the world mountains.
In Cadaques was born the great-grandfather of the artist Salvador and his grandfather Gal.
All who lived in Cadaques, have been since childhood "touched," wrote Daly, the Tramontana is a terrible North wind, which can reach speeds of up to 130 km per hour, which is every year for several days blowing from the mountains, turning machines, twisting root of the plant and driving the inhabitants of the valley empordà into a black depression.
Grandfather bad Gal endured the Tramontana and moved to live in Figueres. But black wind caught it here: April 16, 1886, he went to the balcony and jumped down. Galu was 36. The fact that suicide is carefully concealed from the public, as well as from younger family members. Paranoia Gala was passed to other family members - his son, Raphael, and partly to the artist.
The second son of Gala Salvador Dali Kuzi, was trained to be a notary and moved in Figueres.
He soon married Felipe Domenech, a girl from a creative family.
The first child of El Salvador and Felipe was born 12 October 1901. Salvador Halo died from disease of the stomach in a year and 10 months. 9 months and ten days after his death - may 11, 1904 - born other Salvador, named at baptism El Salvador Felipe Jacinto - not in honor of the deceased baby, and family tradition.
Salvador grew up very spoiled child. Parents blame themselves for the death of the first son, allowed second all. In one of the books Dali wrote: to enjoy universal concern about his health and digestion, he put my shit at home in the most unexpected places. And in 8 years was written specially to bed, so his father bought him a red tricycle.
Every morning, barely opening his eyes, Salvador heard from his mother: "Honey, what do you want? " Sister recalls that one day he wanted a beautifully braided from garlic braid, exhibited in the window of a closed shop. The boy gave the street a real tantrum and brought her meek mother in a rage.
Otherwise built his communication with other people. From scraps of documents and memories of childhood Gave before us appears very unusualy, dreamy, shy and hopelessly impractical child, unexplained confuse fantasy and reality.
On feelings Dali influenced by the behavior of the father. He admired them, strong and quick-tempered, and even worse was the disappointment that one had to experience son. Once on a day when the whole family was looking forward to his return Gave Kuzya, he was late. Finally the taxi drove up to the house, wife and children took to the streets... the Pillar fieramosca society got out of the car and loudly announced the reason for his late arrival: "I crap". Dali has experienced a severe attack of shame for his father and the rest of his life remembered about this shock. At another time, the notary, dressed in pajamas, grappled with him with the tenant, and during the fight his penis fell out of his pants, "like a sausage"...
Relationship with their own sexuality had Given a difficult life. He was the only artist who made Masturbation the main theme of his work.
The young man suffered a complete set of sexual complexes - from anxiety about the size of their penis to a fear of intimacy with a woman (played a big role here illustrated book about venereal diseases that the father was left open on the piano for educational purposes) and fears that he is impotent and a latent homosexual.
Masturbation life was for him the only way to achieve sexual satisfaction.
In his youth Gave was dazzlingly beautiful: above average height, blue-eyed, stylishly dressed. He liked the effect on the audience, and he grew his hair and tanks, and the cloak carelessly wore over his shoulder.
Dali liked girls. His best friend had a beautiful Karma Roger Pumarola, the daughter of the owner of the café. Together they took drawing lessons, went to the movies...
Mother's death was a shock to 16-year-old Dali. He swore that he would raise it in the beam of his own fame. But he could not imagine that after eight years will write on his film: "Sometimes I spit with pleasure on the portrait of my mother... "
"Passing, he smiled at me and star in my heart left... "
Talent for painting appeared in El Salvador in early childhood. By the end of the school he has several times successfully exhibited his paintings in Figueres and Barcelona. Father, proud of his achievements, he decided that his son will be studying in Madrid. In September 1922 Salvador settled in Madrid Residence students, excellence "campus" of Spain.
In the first weeks he had little contact with other residents because of the terrible shyness. But soon he had friends. Among them - the future film Director Luis Bunuel of Aragon, who tried to learn alternately in several departments, athletic Amateur and a born rebel. Together they explored the nooks night Madrid and attended the intellectual company in the numerous cafes.
From the first days of his stay at the residence of the Dali heard the stories about the very bright its resident, who at the time was at home in Andalusia.
Federico Garcia Lorca, 6 years older than Dali, was born in a village near Granada. At the time of their meeting, he had already published my first book. Lorca perfectly played piano, sang, was a great storyteller, painted at first sight... he could charm the interlocutor. But the poet did those who knew about his "lack": Lorca was a homosexual, a fact that even now refuse to accept his few surviving friends.
In early 1923 Lorca came to the Residence. They had a lot in common with Dali: the love of poetry and France (both were germanophobe), Spanish folk songs that they sang from childhood; concern about the injustice of the world; problems with their own sexuality. It was a "great friendship", as he wrote Dali, which gradually grew into something more. Gave as they could have resisted the idea that similar to Lorca in his sexuality, and was afraid to give in to their secret desires. Since the beginning of 20-th image Lorca appears in all the paintings of Dali, displacing his first "nature" - sister. Their heads touching as if in a kiss...
On Easter 1925 Gave invited Lorca in cadaqués. Breakfast after their arrival was served on the terrace in the shade of eucalyptus trees. "When we moved on to dessert, we were already good friends, though all his life knew each other," says Ana Maria. She was 17, she fell in love with Lorca. Father Gave also took the poet as a native language and even staged representation Sardana, the Catalan folk dance in his honor. Neither Ana Maria, nor the father could not even imagine how the relations Federico and Salvador.
In may of 1926, after the publication of "Ode to Salvador Dali", which impressed the artist, Lorca tried to seduce him. But Dali was adamant. "I was very excited. And somewhere deep down, telling himself that he's a great poet and that I should give him a little divine Dali". But this did not happen.
Disgust Gave to the female genitals and "jungle blood" (a metaphor for sexual intercourse, invented by the poet) was as much as Lorca, and remained so for life. Dali loved the female breast is small (he was afraid of the big busts), and most loved women buttocks.
Later Lorca once again tried to do Gave her lover. And then wrote: "I behaved like an indecent ass, with you is the best that I have. Every moment I see it all clearly and very all regret".
Bunuel was alarmed at the growing intimacy Lorca and Dali. He wrote to his friend Pepin Bello: "Dishonest Garcia! We should release the Salvador from its influence. Because it Gave a real man and very talented".
Outside intervention was not required, the two geniuses were separated by circumstances. However, they continued to be made and met.
In the autumn of 1935 Gave saw Lorca in Barcelona. The poet was so happy meeting that made unusual thing: he left with Dali in Tarragona, without telling the audience at a concert in his honor. In an interview with Lorca said, "We are spiritual twins. Here's the proof: we have not seen for seven years, but our opinions about everything are the same, as if we never stopped talking. Dali's genius, genius! "
They never saw each other. On hearing the death of Lorca, Dali could not believe it. And then he shouted "OLE! the Spanish bullfight Express my admiration Paz toreador... Until death Lorca was Given, the main person in his life - after the gala.
"Her forehead like her thighs, her hips like her gums... "
Dali met with another great poet, Paul Eluard, at a party in Paris in April 1929. The wife of the poet was in Switzerland. Dali heard that she's a special woman...
Bunuel had this summer to come to Dali in cadaqués. In early August he, as promised, arrived, accompanied by Magritte, art criticism Homan and my friend Paul Eluard with his wife and daughter, Cecile. According to local Newspapers, representatives of Parisian Bohemia arrived with their respected families".
The representative of the "respectable family" that came before Gave on the beach in a swimsuit, struck by the artist. It was the same girl that in his childhood he had seen in the pictures of the stereoscope on the background of the Russian snows and domes, in a sledge, with piercing eyes...
The figure of the wife of Eluard was the incarnate ideal of Dali: excellent shape thighs and legs, small Breasts and thin waist. And all this surrounded by the most popular seaside scenery, and the name she had, almost like a grandfather Dali, Gala. She walked across the sand springy gait: people looked after...
The person gala was difficult to call beautiful, but when she wanted someone to charm, it was a pretty even. However, in a bad mood (which happened to her often) she and her long nose and close-set eyes resembled a bird of prey or a rat.
Elena Diakonova-Devalina (Check it was called at home) was born in Kazan on August 26, 1894, and was 10 years older than Dali. About childhood gala little is known. Father, Ivan, was Moscow servants, and his mother, Antonina, cultural woman, rotating in artistic circles, published collections of children's stories.
Elena taught French from the age of 7 and after all his life spoke with Gave French (the artist himself spoke on a monstrous mixture of French, Spanish and Catalan). In 10 years she lost her father, and four children, senior Nicholas and Vadim and younger sister Lydia, was brought up by his mother and stepfather.
Gala grew painful, and in 1912 she was sent to a Swiss sanatorium for tuberculosis prevention. There she spent two years getting acquainted with a young poet eugène by Grindheim (real name Paul Eluard). Both returned home, wrote letters, and in 1916 the Gala went to Eluard France as the bride.
Preserved letters gala sent to Eluard on the front. This passionate message, despite the fact that then and Gala, and Paul were pristine. But her virginity before marriage concluded in 23 years, the Gala was more than compensated for by subsequent debauchery. Anuary were free way of life, only throwing unwanted daughter Cecile on the upbringing of his grandmother.
Sexual appetite wife Eluard bordered on nimfomanka. After orgies Threesome with artist max Ernst Gala openly regretted that "some anatomical features" did not allow her to make love to both partners. All lovers gala were handsome she hated ugly. And, of course, immediately drew attention to the attractive and talented Dali. The more that the financial Affairs of Alyarov by the time staggered, and her soul returned childish fears poverty.
Since Karma Roger attention was not attracted to any girl. He seemed mad, met Galu.
Bunuel saw everything. "Had changed overnight". The summer is over, and the guests left of cadaqués, but Gala with her daughter remained. Began the great quarrel was with family. While in Catalonia to walk with the French meant to walk with a prostitute. And Gala everything was still so attractive, married and Russian origin.
Don Salvador was called the passion of the son of "La Madame". Almost immediately he changed his will in favor of Ana-Maria, who also reacted to Gale hostile.
But do not dislike Gale was the main cause of the break Gave with his father and sister. At the end of November in Paris opened the exhibition, including works by Dali painting was "Sacred heart". Ink on canvas, he wrote: "Sometimes I spit with pleasure on the portrait of my mother".
Through many years Gave was assured that they had no intention to insult the memory of Dona Felipa that he just wrote under the dictation of his subconscious, sometimes in dreams tells us how we are afflicted loved ones.
Don Salvador cursed his son and threw him out of the house. He believed that largely to blame Gala furnishes Gave money and drug.
However, it was not so. The exhibition was a financial success, and it Gave was for gala source of confidence in the future. Despite his father's curses and threats, the couple bought a small house in the fishing village of Port Lligat near cadaqués.
They settled together. Eluard threw Galu letters and telegrams, trying to return it. Lorca was amazed to learn that Dali has found the woman of his dreams. "It's impossible! He reaches erection only when someone shoves a finger in his ass! "he said to his friend the poet Rafael Alberti. Lorca knew Dali - but he didn't know Galu... When during the last meeting Gave the poet met her, he was fascinated not less than the other, admiring the fact that this woman not only seduced by Dali, but were able to hold on to it.
Gala helped Gave freed from the torment of his thoughts about his sexual inferiority. She did not deliver away from Masturbation, but significantly eased the sense of shame, by whose power Gave and could not escape until the end of life.
Gala became the religion Dali, his talisman, his love and curse. In 1931 he dedicates her poem "Love and memory":
... Away from the image of my sister
Gala
Her eyes similar to her anus
Her knees like her ears...
Her buttocks similar to finger her hands
Finger her hands like her voice
Her voice is similar to finger her legs
Finger her feet like her hair underarm
Her hair underarm similar to her forehead
Her forehead like her hips
Her hips like her gums
Her gums like her hair
Her hair similar to her feet....
Dali and Gala were married January 30, 1934. Eluard was not present at the ceremony - it would be too much for the person who wrote: "I love you so much that I don't know who of us isn't here... "
This couple had no children. When Reynolds Morse, a friend and collector of paintings by Dali, asked him why, the artist replied: I can only imagine what they could be. "One of the sons of Picasso runs through Paris half-naked and half-mad. If it is the genius of Picasso's crazy son, imagine who would be born to me! " Actually, moving gynecological surgery, Gala could not become a mother. But to have even liked that his wife was "sterile".
Girlfriend, androgynous and lovers
In the autumn of 1935 Dali and Gala make his first voyage to America, which met the author of "the Great masturbator", "Dark games" and "Persistence of memory" with delight. His name was decorated with a newspaper headlines. World fame and wealth were already around the corner...
To this period belong the first attempts of El Salvador to make peace with his father. Gradually, their relationship has improved, and eventually Gave Kuzi even acknowledged the role of the witch wife in his son's life: "Without gala he would have finished under the Paris bridge".
But with her sister, the painter was not reconciled for real. After 1949, she published a memoir about his childhood Salvador Dali, distorting, in his opinion, many of the facts and accusing all family misfortunes surrealism and Galu, he always struck Ana-Maria from his heart. "This old lesbian" - otherwise Gave her and didn't call.
In America, where since 1940, Dali and Gala settled for eight years, Dali came up with the idea to use his name to make money: there are perfumes, stockings, ties with fragments of his paintings. Avida Dollars (greedy dollars) - this is the anagram of the name Given was invented by the father of surrealism, Breton, and she was very fond of the artist. Started endless duplication of the lips, liquid hours and "great product"...
In ten years the wealth Gave increased significantly. Gala smuggled from America suitcases exchange. On the advice of his Manager Peter Moore Gave starts to sign blank sheets to after traders could print them any fragments of his paintings. For each signature on the sheet of paper Given received $ 10.
With the growth of material prosperity Gala increasingly gained a reputation whore. It Gave her attitude as a mother, while not showing any maternal feelings toward her daughter.
In August 1962, the Muse turned 68. She did a plastic surgery and chased the young handsome with renewed energy, showering their favorites money. It was said that "her boys cost a fortune". Sometimes the lovers are not limited to those that took the gifts from gala. One of them, Eric Salmon, romantically dined with Galoi in the restaurant, while his accomplices tried to steal her car. However, the Gala attracted young lovers not only money: some were captivated by her as a woman. As, for example, William Rothlein, 22-year-old drug addict, held on the streets of new York. Gala fed William, very similar to the young Dali, clothed, was weaned from drugs and brought in Verona, where usually forced their passions to swear eternal love. This time love was really long and passionate. Rothlein sent Gale telegrams from America: "I don't understand I love you I don't do drugs I don't drink I'm lost I love you I'm going crazy please telegraphers me or call me immediately I need you I love you I need you don't leave me.
At some point there was even was confident that the Gala will go to William. Usually, when she was away from him with another lover, Dali was glad weekly freedom, but then started to get bored. This time it seemed more serious. The artist wrote his Check letter, begging him not to throw it. But the passion gala William was exhausted, when he was not acting the sample by Fellini. After some time, Rothlein died from a drug overdose.
Gala, as a little girl, was delighted with the gift Given - the old castle in the town of Púbol close to the Port Ligat. Dali loved to boast that he was able to attend this love nest only on its written invitation.
The last great love in life gala was Jeff Fenholt, starring in the Broadway musical "Jesus Christ superstar". For him in the living room of the castle was a large Grand piano. Gala bought Jeff house for 1, $ 25 million and gave a Dali painting. Subsequently Fenholt became teleprovodnik in California and denied that their relationship with Galai was sex. How could he sleep with the old woman, who suffered from skin cancer?
When Gala was once again left the castle with a young admirer, Gave phoned one of his friends: Nanite Kalashnikoff or Amanda Lear, who came to stay at his house for a week or two.
With Manitou Kalashnikoff, Spanish, married to a Russian, Dali met at a charity ball in new York. She was the daughter of the writer, the author poluprorocheski novels that Salvador furtively read in childhood. First Gave seemed crazy, but after they became good friends. Dali was almost ready to fall in love with Nonito. Their relationship was not sexual, but the share of eroticism in them, of course, was present.
Another close friend of Dali, the famous singer Amanda Lear, was the living embodiment of his ideal of a hermaphrodite. Dali met Amanda at the Paris nightclub "Carousel". Future star appeared there under the name of the Pitches d Oslo, but really it (i.e. it was called Alan TEP. Dali enjoyed, revealing to people the secret of Amanda. He showed pictures of her friends and asked, "Like it? And she - man! "
But not only transsexuality Amanda has attracted Dali. She was beautiful, smart, shrewd, knew several languages, was interested in art and ask questions. Dali was glad the teacher's role and what could appear with Amanda in public, though with a young lover.
Galu friend Gave initially infuriated. On the dozens of photographs the face of her rival cut. However, she came to terms with the existence of Amanda, because they did not threaten the marriage and she would be able to retire in Púbol with their young men.
The last days
In the late 70's health Gave deteriorated. At 73, he felt much worse gala. The doctor who examined the artist, found that Dali was addicted to drugs antidepressants, which it was fed Gala. The combination of the sedative valium and exciting amphetamine has caused irreparable damage to his nervous system.
Neurosis Given interfere with Gale to lead a worthwhile life. It is believed that she tried to poison her husband.
Weak and sick, Dali and Gala could not, as usual, to leave for the winter in America or in Paris. Damp weather and the Tramontana aggravated depression...
They were always quarreling. During one of the scandals Fenholt Gave furious pulled his wife from the bed, and she broke two ribs. Another time she fell down the stairs - maybe not without the help Given.
In February 1982 Gala had surgery to remove the gallbladder. By the summer she was trying to get out of bed. Cecile Eluard, having learned from the Newspapers that her mother's death, arrived in Port Lligat. But neither Gave nor Gala did not want to see her.
The Muse of the artist died 10 June 1982. The gala body was embalmed Barcelona's top experts: Dali wanted it as long as possible is not subjected to decay. She was buried in your favorite red dress from Dior.
The gala death was Given great grief and at the same time release.
And who breathed a sigh of relief, so that the Spanish authorities: if Gala died later Gave all his paintings, probably swam for the ocean. She did not love honey Gave Spain.
After the death of gala Dali decided not to return to Port Lligat. His Manager is now able with impunity to take out anything that he pleases. Invaluable things from Dali's house can still be found on the black market.
The artist's life was becoming darker. He wanted to, but couldn't write terribly trembling right hand. Nurse Elda Ferrer remembers: he hardly spoke, constantly crying and hours published animal sounds. In his hallucinations Gave fancied himself a snail. "For two years I heard only one intelligible sentence: my friend Lorca".
Take care of Dali was a real nightmare. He rushed caregivers plates with food, spitting, scratching.
At night Gave was afraid to sleep. His bed was stretched wire with a bell, in which he was called when he wanted to call the nurse. Usually this has happened a few times during the night. To little to make your life easier, the staff replaced the call light.
On the night of 31 August 1984 in the transaction happened a short circuit. The bed began to smolder. Dali tried to call for help, but nobody heard. Only after some time, the nurse noticed the smoke. We had found work in a smoke-filled bedroom: in the unconscious, he lay next to the bed.
Dali was put in the car, and the duty nurse took him away from the fire. "Killer, bitch, criminal! " - yelled at was Given.
The last years of Dali's life spent under the roof of his Theatre-Museum in Figueres - tower Galatea. He died on 23 January 1989, holding the hand of his faithful servant Arturo Caminada, which is almost 40 years working in the artist and believed it, and Galu his family.
In his will had left Arturo neither the peseta. Caminada couldn't believe it. He died less than two years and was never given an interview, although he knew about the private life of a genius more than anyone else. Rumor has attributed his death "the broken heart".
Last wish Dali was not fulfilled. The artist wanted to be buried with a closed face, so no one saw his disfigured by old age and disease. But during the funeral looked at him for 15 thousand people...
Ana-Maria was not among them. She has served a mass in memory of brother, and a year later died from breast cancer, until the last moment refused to see a doctor.
As said one of the friends of the family, "they both died from the syndrome Dali. Both were a bit paranoid, in their souls been lurking fear".
Recalled books and there was, lying in his tower, hung tubes, the curse of the father: that he will die in loneliness, poverty, without friends and family? Caminada said bitterly: "Senor Dali have never loved anyone". A life lived under the sign of shame, hurt many people. But who has the right to judge his actions?
Great egoists are capable of love. The last words Given were: "I want to go home". What house was reminded of him? Hotel room not far from Marseille, who two months he and Gala never left, indulging in love? The attic in his home Figueres, where he posed young Ana Maria? The house where he was born, where everywhere there were flowers and lived in cages favorite Canaries mother? Maybe summer terrace house in Cadaques: under the shade of eucalyptus trees Ana Maria laughing over jokes Lorca and smiles on their fun, father...
Based on the book by Jan Gibson's "Life of Salvador Dali, full of shame"
Source:
Women's Magazine
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