The riddle of the rocks  It was the art movement that shocked
the world. It was sexy, weird and dangerous - and it's still
hugely influential today. Jonathan Jones travels to the coast of
Spain to explore the landscape that inspired Salvador Dalí, the
greatest surrealist of them all. Salvador Dali: Young Virgin
Auto Sodomised by the Horns of her own Chastity 'The surrealists
were at the forefront of the 1920s sexual revolution' ... Young
Virgin Auto Sodomised by the Horns of her own Chastity by
Salvador Dali I am scrambling over the rocks that dominate the
coastline of Cadaqués in north-east Spain. They look like
crumbling chunks of bread floating on a soup of seawater.
Surreal is a word we throw about easily today, almost a century
after it was coined by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Yet if
there is anywhere on earth you can still hope to put a precise
and historical meaning on the "surreal" and "surrealism", it is
among these rocks. To scramble over them is to enter a world of
distorted scale inhabited by