My dear Theo,
Brother, it has now become clear that I am very much a burden to all, but to most of all you. You must understand that I set out on a journey in search of something that I clearly will not find in life, maybe in death the significance will become clear. Circumstance has but taken hold of me, and everything else has become all but translucent. I do not wish to waste any more time for the time has come to set myself free, free from the seizures caused from my temporal lobe epilepsy, the brain lesion that I was born with, my bipolar disorder reflected by my manic desire to paint at such a febrile pace, the depression that has ultimately brought me to where I am now, the thujone poisoning caused by a toxin in my absinthe that I hold so dear, the lead poisoning from my paint, the hypergraphia attributing to all the letters I have written to you and to this last one I write you now, and the sunstroke. I fear I have become captive to my conditions and have but only one means of setting myself free. My art has very much kept my sanity but plainly put it has come with a price. A price you have had to bare, and a burden I will relinquish you of. I wish to be set free and by my own means. If my behavior is an example of my mental illnesses, let it be known it was by fate that I find myself on this very road. I will take it nonetheless like the journey I have taken yet before. I hold it all dear to me, everything, the color, the tone, the lines, my perception, for it is all my own and I bestow it unto you. For I know you or sis will know what to make of it all. I am conscious of the fact of what will remain when I am gone. Do not see this as an act of malice but as a final attempt to make sense of it all. For my requiem will sound like the hymns I have chosen to believe so deeply in.
Brother, it has now become clear that I am very much a burden to all, but to most of all you. You must understand that I set out on a journey in search of something that I clearly will not find in life, maybe in death the significance will become clear. Circumstance has but taken hold of me, and everything else has become all but translucent. I do not wish to waste any more time for the time has come to set myself free, free from the seizures caused from my temporal lobe epilepsy, the brain lesion that I was born with, my bipolar disorder reflected by my manic desire to paint at such a febrile pace, the depression that has ultimately brought me to where I am now, the thujone poisoning caused by a toxin in my absinthe that I hold so dear, the lead poisoning from my paint, the hypergraphia attributing to all the letters I have written to you and to this last one I write you now, and the sunstroke. I fear I have become captive to my conditions and have but only one means of setting myself free. My art has very much kept my sanity but plainly put it has come with a price. A price you have had to bare, and a burden I will relinquish you of. I wish to be set free and by my own means. If my behavior is an example of my mental illnesses, let it be known it was by fate that I find myself on this very road. I will take it nonetheless like the journey I have taken yet before. I hold it all dear to me, everything, the color, the tone, the lines, my perception, for it is all my own and I bestow it unto you. For I know you or sis will know what to make of it all. I am conscious of the fact of what will remain when I am gone. Do not see this as an act of malice but as a final attempt to make sense of it all. For my requiem will sound like the hymns I have chosen to believe so deeply in.
Another Great artist well recognized for his works is Salvador Dali. He is best known for his painting "the persistence of memory". He went to drawing school at Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres. He lost his mother to cancer when he was only 16. He enrolled himself at the Academia de San Fernando and becoming influenced by metaphysics and cubism styles. the next year he was suspended for in-sighting a riot, also being arrested and imprisoned that same year for supporting the Separatism movement. He was really fond of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical theories. He married Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova who was his muse and dealt with the business end of his art. He was expelled from the surrealist movement in 1934, but still participated in events nonetheless. He dedicated 15 years to 19 large canvases, a period which he called "Nuclear Mysticism". He spent much of his time dedicated to the making of the Teatro-Museo Dali which opened in 1974. He retired from painting in 1980 due to motor disorder that caused tremblings in his hands and lost his wife to death two years later. He suffered severe burns from a fire two years later which resulted in him being wheel-chaired and brought back to his beloved Teatro Museo Dali. He died of heart failure while at the age of 84 and was buried in a crypt in his museum.
Works Cited
Salvador Dali Biography. 2015. A&E Telivision Network LLC. 2 March, 2015. http://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389#the-dal%C3%AD-theatre-museum
The Van Gogh Gallery. 15 January 2013. Templeton Reid, LLC. 2 March, 2015 <http://www.vangoghgallery.com/>.
Salvador Dali Biography. 2015. A&E Telivision Network LLC. 2 March, 2015. http://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389#the-dal%C3%AD-theatre-museum
The Van Gogh Gallery. 15 January 2013. Templeton Reid, LLC. 2 March, 2015 <http://www.vangoghgallery.com/>.