Wikipedia:Peer review/Salvador Dalí/archive1

Salvador Dalí

I'm thinking of submitting this as a Featured candidate. Observations, suggestions, and comments welcome. -- Infrogmation 18:57, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

(1) The second picture of him is claimed to be public domain but I see no evidence for that. (2) The painting is copyrighted, and I don't think this can be justified as fair use. (3) Needs to name some printed references. (4) There are a number of value judgments, inevitable in a biography of an artist, but you could make them NPOV by explaining who exactly makes those judgements. For example, instead of Dalí was an artist of great talent and imagination, you could write something like Many critics, even those who thought his work morally repugnant, considered him an artist of great talent. George Orwell wrote, "Dali is a draughtsman of very exceptional gifts. He is also, to judge by the minuteness and the sureness of his drawings, a very hard worker. He is an exhibitionist and a careerist, but he is not a fraud. He has fifty times more talent than most of the people who would denounce his morals and jeer at his paintings." (From "Benefit of Clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dalí") (5) The biography is a bit scrappy, with a bunch of short paragraphs. Can you make it flow better, perhaps by grouping subjects such as his relationship with Gala? Gdr 22:37, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

there is a company, I believe it is in Redondo Beach, that has the copyright to most of the Dali artifacts. One might seek permission there. I'll try to find the name.Pedant 01:44, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)