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Of Course Salvador Dalí And Walt Disney Had A Beautiful Friendship

One was a cartoonist, animator and filmmaker, responsible for choreographing the imaginations of countless growing children with his beloved characters; the other was an eccentric Surrealist, responsible for some of the most haunting and hallucinatory images ever to be imprinted onto the collective subconscious. One had a soft spot for anthropomorphized mice and stuttering ducks; the other for melting clocks and voracious ants. 

One said, “If you can dream it, you can do it,” and the other: “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.“Yup, we’re talking Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, two wildly creative visionaries with entirely different visions – one that likely appealed to your earliest fantastical adventures of the mind, and the other to your college drug experimentation phase. An exhibition entitled ”Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination,“ will delve into the relationship between Walt and Salvador, two artists who challenged the rigid boundaries once separating dreams from waking life. 

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