Figueres

After checking into our accom. set off to see the Salvador Dali museum. We have been recommended by two people to take the trip to Figueres, near the French border to see this museum, and it was well worth the trip.

Salvador Dali is much more than just a surrealist painter. To see his early work, his ink drawings, water colours, portraits, all before he got really adventurous, you can see how much artistist talent he has to begin with. Then he just gets wacky, a little overuse of the male & female genitalia in some of his sketches, and the man with female genitalia and vise versa, is also strange. But that is only a portion of his work. There is a room where he set up a couch the shape of lips, huge nose and enlarged paintings of Paris for the eyes, a floor to ceiling hollow hair style, then you walk up a tall ladder and look through a large magnifying glass to see what is a Mae West. Very clever! I got a photo and will put it on here when I can. There´s plenty of this kind of thing in the museum. We really enjoyed it and if it wasn´t for the large tour groups following the guide holding a ping pong bat with their tour group name on it, then it would have been even better. Its hard in museums and galleries with tour groups because normally a couple or small group will looking a painting and move on but when there´s a group of 30 and the whole story is told about the painting, then there´s no chance of seeing it. We´ve started to dislike tour groups in Europe, and have vowed never to be on one.

Anyway, Figures itself is quite lovely but have completely cashed in on Dali, the museum is actually quite cool from the outside too. Its a dark pink colour with gold emblems on it and the roof is lined with massive white eggs. Another photo I will get on here too.

Outside Salvador Dali gallery - Figueres

Favourite tapas bar

Massive painting by Salvador Dali

Drawing - Rock woman, Salvador Dali

Famous Dali painting