Très Dada

I've got a lot of favorite pictures of Dalí. And I've got a lot of favorite Dalí paintings. The difference being paintings of his and pictures taken of him. Both, I find, are fascinating and revelatory explorations into the mind of Dalí, whose public persona could sometimes outshine his body of work. Not that it should, considering how impressive his work is, but that's kind of how things went. The one of his face sprawled as a mosaic on the stairs belonging to the Philadelphia Museum of Art entrance is a gem. But this picture here absolutely has to take the cake. If there's ever been a real life image that so precisely encapsulates an artist and his entire philosophy, it's this image. Dalí and his pet giant anteater as they walk up the stairs of a Paris subway station. Fuck yeah, Salvador!

You can draw a line tracing Dalí's anteater obsession right back to his friend Bretón,  known as "le tamanoir" or the anteater, who even penned a poem by the name of "After the Giant Anteater".