Clunkyboots22

Clunkyboots22 t1_j21pty5 wrote

Reply to comment by Seigvell in Safety First by packpeach

Used to be a dude in Galveston who’d ride from the Strand, where he lived, to the beach, wearing just a speedo. He wasn’t naked but he might as well have been. We all thought of it as local color.

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Clunkyboots22 t1_iy9v0xh wrote

He certainly palled around with them, and he supported Franco. But that shouldn’t be considered in evaluating his art. Ezra pound was a fascist but also a brilliant poet. Once we start considering an artist’s personal life or politics in evaluating the worth of their art there’s no stopping. We’d have to toss out everybody from Gauguin to Hemingway. I personally believe Dali’s painting to be laboriously over-dramatic, over-rated and a bit cornball, but not because of his politics.

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