It is not uncommon to meet people who noticeably predominate in one trait. Some are very restless, others are too pedantic, others are overly sarcastic, etc. Such one predominant character trait can be considered both as a talent and also as a human flaw. A certain character trait presupposes a certain strategy of behavior peculiar to a given personality. So, for example, a pedantic person, as a rule, is diligent and accurate, a person prone to demonstrativeness strives for brightness and attractiveness.
In psychology, the predominant features of a person’s character that are on the borders of the clinical norm are called accentuation. Accentuated individuals can achieve significant success in science, culture, sports, political activity etc. However, these people also often face psychological difficulties in cases where there are situations that are opposite to their personality traits. It can be difficult to avoid such situations, and in order to overcome the difficulties and discomfort in communication, you need to consult a psychologist to receive qualified assistance.
An accentuated personality can be selectively vulnerable in relation to some psychogenic influences, while to others, a fairly good stability is maintained. Accentuations are not mental disorders, however, some properties are similar to those and this allows us to assume the existence of links between them. An accentuated person has difficulty maintaining a normal lifestyle. To identify accentuations, psychologists use special tests and psychological questionnaires. This work is carried out practical psychologists who have higher education in psychology.
In general, accentuation is " extreme version of the norm". Accentuations include a group of persistent pointed character traits of a person, congenital or acquired. The negative side of this problem can be small violations of relationships with people, as well as adaptation in the outside world.
With accentuation, a violation of mental balance usually occurs, the depth of this violation depends on the severity of some mental properties and the insufficient development of others. Excessive emotional excitability can be observed in the absence of a person's control over his own behavior, as well as reactions that were caused by emotional reasons. Anxiety, suspicion and uncertainty arise in the absence of an adequate assessment of ongoing events, as well as a loss of a sense of reality. Selfishness, excessive claims to one's own importance in the absence of the necessary abilities and capabilities can manifest in a person's behavior.
All these character traits can also be inherent in a mentally normal person. However, in this case, they are balanced by other character traits and therefore appear to be more balanced. Harmony and disharmony are broader concepts used to qualify the mental states of a person. It is possible to speak of a person as a harmonious personality in the case of an optimal combination of its mental and physical properties. It is noted that people with accentuations in the nature of the combination of these properties complicate social adaptation.
Those personality traits that prevent a person from showing social activity and adapt to society, psychologists see as a violation. The potential of a person with accentuations to social adaptation depends on the degree of disharmony of the personality and factors of the surrounding reality.
In favorable conditions accentuated personality feels satisfactorily, that is, under these conditions, the person is in a state of compensation. And, on the contrary, in adverse conditions, a person may experience painful manifestations - anxious, neurotic. In such cases, a person needs a qualified person who will help a person overcome his problems and adapt to the social environment.
Salvador Dali considered Walt Disney a surrealist, and maybe that's why in 1946 the Great Mystifier collaborated with the Great Animator. The audience could see the result only in 2003.
cartoon acquired worldwide fame, but the audience is wondering: what is there directly “from Dali”, and what is a Disney product? Well, the answer is surreal, like the very fate of "Destino"!
Salvador Dali came to America in 1945, but not because of a multi-occasion. The visit took place. The "King of Horrors" needed scenery for the film, but Dali was furious with the film adaptation of his ideas: instead of pianos suspended from the ceiling, they were pathetic imitations! So, at the exhibition of his paintings in the Binyu Gallery, the surrealist also presented to the public the “pseudo-newspaper” Dali News with the exposure of Hollywood and ... the announcement of the upcoming project with Walt Disney. A pleasant meeting between the two creators determined the fate of the new idea: their interests coincided.
The animator, in the wake of his pioneering work of 1940 "Fantasy", was carried away by the idea of synthesis of animation and high art. And Dali was constantly looking for new opportunities to embody his dreams and fantasies. And, although the artist requested a huge amount for the work, setting conditions for copyright, the contract was signed. Inspired, Dali spoke of creating a "film in new ways" in which "... Thanks to the craftsmanship of Disney, for the first time it will be possible to see the clock in motion." And things moved on!
Salvador Dali had a director, animators John Hench and Bob Cormac, and music at his disposal. The animation was conceived to the ballad "Destino" by the Mexican Armando Dominguez, and Dali was captivated by the word itself, in translation - "fate". Her turns in Dali's imagination were constantly changing, new images and paintings appeared.
« The girl is walking on the way and... finds himself riding a huge elephant with the legs of an arthropod insect, surrounded by various monsters... We see a pyramid... next to a church floating over a pond formed by two human palms, from which two cypresses grow. Riding around the pond on bicycles naked people. They all disappear into the pond" - Dali's words about the future cartoon from an interview with Arts magazine.
Some moments were reminiscent of the ideas of existing paintings by Dali - he wanted to "revive" the work of 1939 "Swans reflected in the form of elephants", include the image of "a girl jumping over a rope", others famous paintings. After all, the artist did not create a cartoon, but a means of immersion in the personal world of Salvador Dali's surrealism!
Disney, who originally defined "Destino" as "the usual love story of a girl and a boy", was overwhelmed by the fantasies and works presented by Dali.
The artist created 22 paintings and about 135 sketches, and John Hench prepared an 18-second cartoon segment. For Disney, after the Second World War, was worried about the question: will the idea be commercially successful? Alas, eight months after the start of work, the “birth” did not take place: Disney postponed the project for financial reasons. However, half a century later, Walt Disney's nephew Roy, working on new version of the legendary cartoon of the studio - "Fantasy - 2000", found Dali's achievements in the archives! He got excited about the idea of finishing the work of the Masters also because, under a long-standing contract, the original works of the artist will belong to the Disney studio only after the completion of the cartoon.
Salvador Dali. Design for Destino
New world on a turtle
Roy Disney was lucky: 95-year-old John Hench, Dali's "same" collaborator, agreed to personally work with a team of 25 artists. There were diaries of the wife of Senor Salvador - Gala, where the thoughts-fantasies of her husband are recorded. 5 paintings and sketches by Dali were used, as well as new works by artists. In the autumn of 2003, 58 years after the start of work, the premiere of "Destiny" took place at the French Film Festival in Annecy.
The original 18-second scene remains unchanged in the cartoon, so look for turtles!
Short cartoon Destino was created in The Walt Disney Company based on ideas and drawings by Salvador Dali. The video sequence is accompanied by music by Armando Dominguez. The cartoon was started in 1945 and finished only 58 years later, in 2003. Post-war economic difficulties prevented the project from being realized when the greatest nutcase of the 20th century was working on it.
Frame from "Destino".
Destino means fate, fate, fate in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician. IN English language a word with this meaning sounds almost the same - Destiny.
The animated film reveals another facet of the talent of the most famous surrealist, the creator of paranoid-critical realism.
Destino, Walt Disney Pictures, USA, France, 2003.
Directed by: Dominique Montfery
Producers: Roy Edward Disney, Baker Bloodworth
Screenwriter: Salvador Dali
Composers: Armando Dominguez, Michael Starobin
Animators: Salvador Dali, John Hench
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Story by: Salvador Dali and John Hench
Music by: Armando Dominquez, Michael Starobin
Edited by: Jessica Ambinder Rojas
Directed by: Dominique Monfery
Running Time: 6:40 minutes
Release date: 2003
Technique: 2D animation
Produced by: Baker Bloodworth
Executive Producer: Roy Edward Disney
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Salvador Dali at work at Walt Disney Studios, circa 1946
Destino was storyboarded over eight months in late 1945 and 1946 by Salvador Dalí and Disney artist John Hench.
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Salvador Dali and Walt Disney.
Disney was given a 17-18 second test cartoon episode in 1946, but then it was decided to postpone Destino indefinitely.
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Dali at Walt Disney Studios
The project was closed by Walt Disney due to the company's financial difficulties. All the years of the Second World War, the studio carried out government orders, which brought almost no income.
In addition to a short episode, a huge number of drawings and sketches remained from the idea sent to the archive.
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Dali's preparatory work for Destino.
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The work written by Dali in preparation for the creation of "Destino".
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Oil painting by Dali for "Destino". When creating the film, it was combined with the video sequence
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Preparatory drawing for Destino
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In 1999, Disney's nephew Roy Edward Disney / Roy E. Disney worked on the musical cartoon "Fantasia 2000" / Fantasia 2000, filmed 60 years after the legendary "Fantasy". And John Hench was just a member of the team of cartoonists for the 1940 Fantasia tape, he was also one of the fathers of the creators of Mickey Mouse.
Roy Disney decided to bring back to life the forgotten project of the great surrealist and Hench. For this, a small branch of Disney in Paris was involved. The cartoon was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Monfréy, who first appeared in this capacity. Using the help of Hench himself, who by that time was 95 years old, as well as the diaries of Dali's wife Gala, a group of twenty-five animators "deciphered" the drawings of Dali and Hench and brought their ideas to life.
The result was a cartoon in the technique of hand-drawn animation using computer graphics. The original 18-second footage is included in the film in the scene with the two turtles, Dali and Gala.
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A baseball player and a baseball were added to Salvador Dali's creation.
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A few more shots from Destino:
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Personally, I don’t really like Dali, although he, of course, has a lot of interesting and profound works. I am not very fascinated by the nightmares from the depths of the artist's subconscious, which are so attractive to the public. At one time, superimposed on advertising escapades they brought Dali world fame wealth, and then immortality. And this is good, because different artists and creativity are needed, especially brilliant ones. Well, what about Dali great creator, you can't argue with that.
Of the surrealists, Rene Magritte is closer to me with his laid-back absurdity, devoid of horrors, but this is not about him.
In conclusion, Dali's three statements from the many aphorisms uttered and written by him for long life. The first two can be safely recommended as psychological advice.
* If you start playing genius, you will certainly become one!
* All my efforts, every day, always, are subordinated to a single goal: to be able to be Dali.
* In my life, there are extremely rare cases when I humiliated myself by dressing in a civilian suit. I have always preferred to wear the Dali uniform.
Quotes - from the book "Salvador Dali: Thoughts and Anecdotes", translator Polyak O., editor Khotinskaya N.O., Text publishing house, 2010
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Dali's preparatory drawing for Destino, used in the cartoon's closing credits.
