>>2248880Dali, aside from being an egomaniac and near schizophrenic at times was wildly inconsistent. Sometimes he could paint magnificently. Dali was not a skilled painter overnight. He could be painting one day, and be a drug addicted lunatic the next.
It was this combination of continued effort towards his art, continual drug use, mental illness and breakdowns that his art gained it's truly remarkable and surreal quality. I don't think you can get art like his without being quite a bit crazy.
So as for being a genius, Dali was quite mad.
Is being a mentally ill drug addict the same as genius? Does it matter if they're even conflated? Is madness genius?
So, was Deli a genius?
Depending on your opinion he probably was.
