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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. In the background of the painting is a Catalan landscape depicted in fiery fall colors, the brushwork creating ...
The porcelain ashtrays were inspired by Dalí’s 1937 work Swans Reflecting Elephants and featured a design that created double images—appearing as swans or elephants depending on how they were ...
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 ...
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.
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 ]
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In 1958, Dalí wrote, "Paradoxically, this painting, which has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of all." [ 5 ] The painting was formerly in the collection of The Playboy Mansion . Playboy Enterprises sold the painting at a Sotheby's auction in London in 2003 for £1.35 million , equivalent to £2,220,000 in 2023.
The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques" [12] to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness. The craggy rocks to the right represent the tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia. Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in ...