DALI OFFERS VIEW ON MONARCHIES
Surrealist artist Salvador Dali, back home in northern Spain after being seriously burned last fall, was quoted as saying that all great works of art had been achieved under royal patronage.
In an interview with the Barcelona daily Avui, Dali said: “I am an avowed monarchist. Nothing of importance has ever been done under a republic.”
He added: “The bourgeoisie is the worst thing there is. It is revolting. Spain was lucky to have its monarchs.”
The 81-year-old artist was seriously burned last Aug. 30 in a bedroom fire in his 12th-Century castle near Barcelona. He has led a hermit-like existence since his wife, Gala, died in 1982.
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