In 1934, the Surrealists — the dream-painting club run by poet André Breton — put Salvador Dalí on trial for cozying up to Hitler and threw him out. He kept painting. He kept selling. He died rich.
The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, his glass-domed shrine in northeast Spain, now draws roughly enough grid electricity to run 847 Catalan households for a year. I converted the kilowatt-hours myself. That is 2.3 households per melting clock on display, and I counted the clocks.
Cement, which the dome is mostly made of, is about 8% of global emissions. So Breton's expulsion lowered Dalí's lifetime footprint by zero kilograms and raised his auction prices.
Philippe Halsman, who photographed Dalí mid-leap with cats in 1948, reused his bathwater for prints and still flew first class to Paris twice a year. I have the manifests. Symbolic gestures do not draw down carbon. The grid bill in Figueres comes due in euros.
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