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Salvador Dali’s politics played a significant role in his emergence as an artist. He has sometimes been portrayed as a supporter of the authoritarian (独裁的) Franco. On Dali’s personality, George Orwell wrote in an essay that "One ought to be able to hold in one’s head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being. The one does not invalidate or, in a sense, affect the other."
In his youth, Dati embraced for a time both anarchism and communism. His writings account various anecdotes of making radical political statements more to shock listeners than from any deep conviction, which was in keeping with Dali’s allegiance to the Dada movement. As he grew older his political allegiances changed, especially as the Surrealist (超现实主义者) movement went through transformations under the leadership of Trotskyist André Breton, who is said to have called Dalí in for questioning on his politics. In his 1970 book Dalí by Dalí, Dalí was declaring himself an anarchist and monarchist, giving rise to speculations of Anarcho-Monarchism.
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Dali fled from fighting and refused to align himself with any group. Likewise, after World War Ⅱ, George Orwell criticized Dali for "scuttling off like a rat as soon as France is in danger" after Dali prospered there for years: "When the European War approaches he has one preoccupation only: how to find a place which has good cookery and from which he can make a quick bolt if danger comes too near." After his return to Catalonia after World War Ⅱ, Dali became closer to the Franco regime. Some of Dali’s statements supported the Franco regime, congratulating Franco for his actions aimed "at clearing Spain of destructive forces." Dali, having returned to the Catholic faith and becoming increasingly religious as time went on, may have been referring to the Communists, Socialists, and anarchists who had killed almost 7,000 priests and nuns during the Spanish Civil War. Dalí sent telegrams to Franco, praising him for signing death warrants for prisoners. Dalí even met Franco personally and painted a portrait of Franco’s granddaughter. It is impossible to determine whether his tributes to Franco were sincere or whimsical; he also once sent a telegram praising the Conducǎtor, Romanian :Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, for his adoption of a scepter as part of his regalia. The Romanian daily newspaper Scinteia published it, without suspecting its mocking aspect. One of Dalí’s few possible bits of open disobedience was his continued praise of Federico Garcia Lorca even in the years when Lorca’s works were banned.
What did Dalí do during the Spanish Civil War