SURREALISM

Salvador Dali was one of the most renowned artists of the 20th century.  He lived from 1904 to 1989.  To say that he was a little quirky is an understatement.  

Dali's artistry is mostly in the category of surrealism.  It can most easily be described as unreal.  This led him also into cubism which can most easily be described as making everything out cubes.  He also had a period of Dada art work which puts the subject into political bounds.  

His quirkyness wasn't displayed solely in his art.  He kept pets that might be called abnormal.  He loved cats and kept an ocelot.  Ocelots do not make great pets.  They tend to be mean and artists need all their fingers to do their work.  He took that creature into restaurants to eat along side him.  It's said that he was seldom seen without it.  He loved that cat.  He called it affectionately, Babou.  

He also kept an anteater.  He would take it for walks on a leash.  One time, he took it onto a television talk show.  The anteater was mostly for show.  I don't think it had a name.  He didn't love it like the ocelot.

I'm a sometimes - artist.  I have no pets.