Teatre Museu Dalí
Plaça de Gala-Dalí 5
About
The internationally known Dalí was as famous for his flamboyance and exhibitionism as he was for his surrealist and often erotic imagery. At the Figueres museum, in the center of town beside the Rambla, you'll find his paintings, watercolors, gouaches, charcoals, pastels, prints, and sculptures, many rendered with seductive and meticulously detailed imagery. His wide-ranging subject matter encompassed such repulsive issues as putrefaction and castration. You'll see, for instance, The Happy Horse, a grotesque and lurid purple beast the artist painted during one of his long exiles at Port Lligat. A tour of the museum is an experience. When a catalog was prepared, Dalí said with a perfectly straight face, "It is necessary that all of the people who come out of the museum have false information."
