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In Metamorphosis, the reflection of Narcissus is used to mirror the shape of the hand on the right of the picture. Here, the three swans in front of bleak, leafless trees are reflected in the lake so that the swans' necks become the elephants' trunks, the swans' bodies become the elephants' ears, and the trees become the legs of the elephants.
The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...
A parade of elephants led by a horse approach St. Anthony. The horse is a depiction of Satan (note the reverse of the hooves); many artists of the Middle Ages depicted anything other than Christian as upside down or reverse, and Dalí did the same here, but the horse as Satan was described by Dalí as beautiful, terrible and impossible.
The elephant is a distorted version of the Piazza della Minerva sculpture Elephant and Obelisk by Gian Lorenzo Bernini facing the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. [7] The smaller pomegranate floating between two droplets of water may symbolize Venus, especially because of the heart-shaped shadow it casts. [7]
The Cheerful Horse (1980) Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain; Group Surrounding a Reclining Nude – Velazquez (1980–81) Sleeping Young Narcissus (1980) Untitled (Bridge with Reflections; sketch for a dual image picture, unfinished) (1980) Untitled (Landscape with Celestial Beings) (1980) The Harmony of the Spheres (1980)
Giraffes on Horseback Salad, also called The Surrealist Woman, [1] was a screenplay written in 1937 [2] by Salvador Dalí for the Marx Brothers.It was to be a love story between a Spanish aristocrat named "Jimmy" (to be played by Harpo Marx, with whom Dalí was friends) [1] and a "beautiful surrealist woman, whose face is never seen by the audience". [3]