“Giraffe on Fire” or, as this painting is also called, “The Flaming Giraffe” is one of the most famous and important works for the great surrealist. This painting was painted in 1937 before the emigration of the artist to the United States in a surreal style. This picture resonates in a special way with another…
The riddle of Wilhelm Tell, painted by Salvador Dali in 1933, is one of the great surrealist’s most emblematic paintings. As you know, in the paintings of Dali, Wilhelm Tell is a symbol of his father, who deprived his son of his inheritance. But the artist portrayed Tell as Vladimir Lenin. This mystery can be…
This is a self-portrait. The head of Salvador Dali in the painting is depicted in the form of a rock near his house, the artist used this image in works dated later 1929. In the painting, Dali portrayed his fear and disgust that he felt for sex. El Salvador blamed his father in part for…
The artist’s fantasies on the themes of the Gospel fill the familiar plot with new content. Only outwardly, the picture resembles a fresco by the great Leonardo. The work atmosphere is completely different. The author deliberately transfers the action of the picture to the modern space. Above the table is a glass dome, behind which…
The painting of the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali is full of dreams and “visions”, but much in his art came from reason, for example, the idea of depicting a hypercube scan instead of a cross in the picture presented. Thus, the artist confronts the clear geometric shape and the suffering of Christ, emphasized by…
The painting “Persistence of Memory”, written by the great Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali in 1931, differs, like many of his other works, by its special style and deep subtext, which is filled with many incredible meanings. The Persistence of Memory is one of the most famous and reproduced works of Salvador Dali. Because of this,…
The riddle of Wilhelm Tell, painted by Salvador Dali in 1933, is one of the great surrealist’s most emblematic paintings. As you know, in the paintings of Dali, Wilhelm Tell is a symbol of his father, who deprived his son of his inheritance. But the artist portrayed Tell as Vladimir Lenin. This mystery can be…
The longest, coherent and most impressive dreams are seen by a person just before awakening. Sleep can last for several seconds, but subjectively leave the feeling of several hours full of events. The world of dreams is exactly the space where time is counted according to the Soft clock of Salvador Dali – and they,…
Before you is a painting by the surrealist Salvador Dali. It’s a weird job with an interesting history. She is somewhat biographical and, as critics suggest, personifies the author’s protest and revenge against his own sister, Anna Maria, in response to a book she wrote in 1949. So, the background of the canvas goes back…
While studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in 1925, Salvador Dali painted one of the most perfect paintings of that period – “The Figure at the Window”. Dali painted the figure of a woman standing by the window and looking into the distance from his sister, Ana Maria. The painting is made in…