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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 ...
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [b] [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE; [2] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [c] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and ...
The proceeding elephants carry structures reminiscent of the Palladian and the next with a phallic tower. [citation needed] In the clouds behind the elephants, glimpses of El Escorial can be seen, representing spiritual and temporal disorder. Dalí chose to paint subjects that he considered spiritual, and to reveal hidden powers in them.
Salvador Dalí's painting The Elephants, which depicts two elephants with elongated legs facing each other while bearing fragmented obelisks, also makes visual references to the statue. Gallery [ edit ]
Landscape Near Figueras (1910) The Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida; Vilabertran (1913), Private collection; Fiesta in Figueres (1914–1916) Head of Athene (1914) Landscape Near Ampurdan (1914) Untitled (1914) Untitled – House by a Lake (1914) Dutch Interior (1915) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; 1916-1918. Empordà Landscape (1916) Gala ...
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The Seven Lively Arts was a series of seven paintings created by the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in 1944 and, after they were lost in a fire in 1956, recreated in an updated form by Dalí in 1957. The paintings depicted the seven arts of dancing, opera, ballet, music, cinema, radio/television and theatre.