He did numerous paintings for Franco, was kicked out of the Surrealist Group for saying nice things about Hitler, and IIRC sent Franco letters of congratulations after the latter had a bunch of Communists shot.
--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 12:42 PM
> At 08:59 AM 6/5/2009, wrobert at uci.edu
> wrote:
>
> > The only surrealist that comes close to fascism is
> Salvador Dali, and that
> > seemed to be primarily an act of opportunism and
> cynicism.
>
>
> He told Dick Cavett he was a monarchist. J.G. Ballard
> wrote that Dali was the only one who remained surrealist to
> the end, in that he kept up what was always the driving
> energy of the movement i.e. to scandalize the bourgeoisie.
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