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Lol, I'm looking at this painting thinking: who ripped off whom, Dalí or this guy? Turns out: Dalí.

From wikipedia: "Dalí was also influenced by the work of Yves Tanguy, and he later allegedly told Tanguy's niece, 'I pinched everything from your uncle Yves.'" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD



<Sigh,> your comment led me here to Yves's wife's wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Sage


I'm somewhat taken by her work Tomorrow is Never, as shown in the article or, in slightly better resolution, at https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/4...

It's 97 cm x 1.36 m originally and I need to get back to the MET and see it. Also copyright in circumstances like this needs to suck a surreal clock that looks, tastes, and trains an equivocating hamster exactly as a dick does.


I was very taken with this work when I saw it at the Met. It’s now the screen background on my Linux VM.


Pretty much the whole evolution of art consists of creative rip-offs of what came before.


Right, at some point "being able to rip off the people who came before you and still be interesting" is what it means to be a great artist. Steal, steal, steal -- but don't copy.


I thought it was a Dali at first.




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