Salvador Dali was a great artist but also a commercial whore. Here’s the proof [Video]

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For all the artistic greatness that Salvador Dali had in him, he also defined the artistic celebrity endorsement.  Pay him a few bucks and he would have done a commercial for pretty much anything you want him too.  At the time, many in the artistic community found his desire for attention whoredom a little sickening, but he was just ahead of his time.  Here’s several of his most famous commercials plus a bonus clip of him on That’s Our Line:

Oh, and here he is on the old game show “That’s My Line”, listing his occupation as “artist”

Via: LaughingSquid

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