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Swans Reflecting Elephants is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, from 1937. It is held in a private collection. It is held in a private collection. History and description
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 ...
Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (unfinished) (1972–73, 60.5 x 60.5 cm) (stereoscopic painted in duplicate but for a small variance)Dali Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain
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 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 ...
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