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L A D Y ♔ G A G A - Gagavision 45

She was destined to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife.

- Salvador Dali on Gala

Dali always maintained that without his wife, Gala, he would never have been the icon of art as he became.

Gala’s real name was Helena Ivanovna Diakonova, a Russian born in Kazan in 1894. She was 10 years older than Dalí and, when they met in 1929, she was married to the poet Paul Éluard and mother to a little girl. She also had a lover, Max Ernst, who painted her in a number of portraits. It was love at first sight.

In his Secret Life, Dalí wrote: “She was destined to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife.” The name Gradiva comes from the title of a novel by W. Jensen, the main character of which was Sigmund Freud. Gradiva was the book’s heroine and it was her who brought psychological healing to the main character.

She immediately became his muse. Gala is a frequent model in Dalí’s work, often in religious roles such as the Blessed Virgin Mary in the painting The Madonna of Port Lligat.

In the early 1930s, Dalí started to sign his paintings with his and her name as “it is mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures”. Gala acted as his agent, very aggressively fighting for his rights with gallery owners and buyers. She was also using tarot cards to influence Dalí’s career decisions. According to most accounts, Gala had a strong sex drive and, throughout her life, had numerous extramarital affairs (among them with her former husband Paul Éluard), which Dalí encouraged, since he was a practitioner of candaulism. Also, Salvador Dalí claims to be a virgin and completely impotent as he was afraid of women’s anatomy and Gala publicly assumes her affairs with other men. Still, it seems that their relationship was quite harmonic and lucrative for both sides.

He wrote: “I would polish Gala to make her shine, make her the happiest possible, caring for her more than myself, because without her, it would all end.”

But nothing lasts forever. At the end of the 1960s, their relationship started to fade away, and for the rest of their lives, it was just smouldering pieces of their bygone passion. In 1968, the painter bought Gala a castle in Púbol, Girona, and it was agreed that the painter could not go there without her prior permission. Gala spent much of her time there in the company of young men, for whom she spent a fortune. In his turn, Dali saved himself for the company of attractive young ladies, although he didn’t want anything from them but their beauty. It was said that they held weekly orgies, though, by all accounts, the artist himself didn’t participate except to watch.

In 1980, at the age of 76, Dali was forced to retire due to palsy. The motor disorder left him unable to hold a brush, and as his condition worsened, he became less tolerant of Gala’s continued affairs. Gala was also using income from Dali’s art to lavish money and gifts on her lovers, who were mostly young male artists. One day, the artist had enough. He beat Gala so badly, he broke two of her ribs. To calm him down, Gala gave him large doses of Valium and other sedatives, which made him lethargic. She then allegedly gave him “unknown quantities of one or more types of amphetamine,” which caused “irreversible neural damage.”

Gala Dalí died in Port Lligat, Spain, on June 10, 1982, following a severe case of the flu. She was buried in Púbol, Spain, on the grounds of a castle that was a gift from her husband. At the time of her death, she was involved in an affair with a 22-year-old Jesus Christ Superstar actor named Jeff Fenholt for whom she left Dalí. But when Gala died, Dalí’s life became dull. He stopped eating and scratched his face. He was constantly shouting and crying. He outlived his wife by seven years.

Hello! Here is a blog for those seeking Art-Sims and Jewelsnsims CC in a concise format:

Most things have been found, but there are a few missing, like for example, this set by Art-Sims:

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• Komi San Doll Version •

• Anime: Komi Can't Comunnicate

// hair // glasses // umbrella // pose //

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Artsims Leather Grommet Boots fixed

Hoo boy working with these was an experience. Reminds me why I prefer to stick to EA stuff! @parystrange contacted me about the textures for these being confusing, and were they ever! It’d take less time to just list the fixes I did for these, and even then I didn’t have the patience to fix the issues you can see in the screenshot above.

I reiterate: the UV map for these is an absolute mess.

CHANGELOG:

texture fixes: lightened multiplier (now you can use these in more options than pitch black!), made new specular and normal textures, made new 3-channel mask that actually makes use of the 2nd channel (it was previously enabled but didn't do anything);

mesh changes: adjusted UV map and textures to prevent overlap with tops' UV map (which led to texture bleeding from the top the sim was wearing), made LOD2 and LOD3;

other: got rid of duplicate/useless textures, made 2 new presets.

ISSUES:

unfixable (because I don’t have the patience to lol): sole texture is stretched and pulls in places from the texture from the sides of the boots, 1st and 2nd channels can overlap on the interior of the boots (the channel for the sole looks fine in Milkshape, awful in-game for some reason — see heel area); and the textures still look kinda crispy to me (from the boots being photoskinned);

fixable: if you see a gap in the front of the boots and the grommets (the circular metal parts) are wonky, take the sim into CAS and recolor the boots slightly, as that reloads the textures.

The regular details:

Mesh and multiplier are done by Artsims, everything else by me. This edit is standalone. If Artsims doesn’t approve of it, I’ll take it down.

For YA/A females. Everyday, Formal, Career, Outerwear, Maternity. Not enabled for random.

Polycount: 984 polys (roughly 2x as much as EA shoes).

Custom thumbnails. 2 presets with 3 channels.

“Shall we give her a whirl? #artravelasvegas The ever evolving #artpopcouldmeananything”, Gaga shared with a picture of her brand new artRAVE costume.

She wore custom Gabriela Ostolaza cropped faux Fur Jacket and Wendy Kay Designs Seashell Wings with some bejeweled Panties, raver Leg Warmers and a latex Leg Harness.

real look

casual - career / adult female

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Mesh and texture by artsims

includes custom CAS and launcher thumbnails!

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I recategorize this dress as nightwear.

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This. Hat.

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Also this one.