Salvador Dali

Geopoliticus Child

Watching the Birth of

the New Man (1943)I

in this painting Salvador Dali gives

us a large egg-shaped globe of the

world out of which a man is

struggling to “hatch”. This “new

man” is coming out of North

America – the United States. There

is blood running out of the crack in

the egg and the new man’s hand

has England firmly in its grasp. In

the foreground two figures are

watching; one an adult the other a

small child.

The Face of War

(1941)

He is obsessed with death

and it appears as the face

of war or, more

seductively, in the shape of

female bodies. The props

he designed for the film

Moontide were so horrifying

that they were rejected

because the technician

refused to build them.

Millet’s Architectonic Angelus (1933)

Inspired from Jean

Francoins Millet’s

“L’angelus”

Two big stone means the

young couple

young Dali and his father

underneath the male

stone, and a female

stone using a crutch.

Female stone is pushing

out part of herself to

make physical contact

with the male.

Dream Caused by the flight of a

Bee

By rendering scenes of dreamlike irrationality with

seemingly incongruous precise and naturalistic

form, Dalí gives substance to subconscious

visions, making his often strange content more

palatable to viewers, while at the same time

challenging them to consider the relationship between

internal and external realities.

Dream purportedly depicts Gala, Dalí’s wife, in the midst

of a dream. The bee and pomegranate of the title hover

below Gala’s body. The fish, tigers, and rifle all seem

poised to attack her, but they clearly stand as symbols

of unconscious desires. Dalí’s explicit focus on a dream

as the stated content of the painting grounds his chaotic

vision firmly in the Surrealist tradition.

Still Life Moving Fast (1956)

"the decomposition of a fruit dish."

the usual elements found in a still

life, turned these elements alive by

positioning them in a natural condition

of movement.

The Invisible Man

It seems as though there is a lot going on in the painting, however, if you look closer you can see the invisible man and that Salvador used actual objects in the painting to make the man appear slightly. You can see that it is also a one point perspective painting.

This painting may be showing what kind of emotions Salvador Dali may have been experiencing at the time. I love how sharp the colors are; very bold and they pop right out. Also how he builds the man; he may be stating that the man is not physically or emotionally able to stand for himself, and that he needs others to help him. He may have lost who he is mentally/emotionally. At the bottom right corner of the picture you can see figures that seem like they are statues, could possibly be people that are crying for the invisible man as if he disappeared or died. At the very bottom you can slightly see the mans feet and something that looks like its coming out of him, almost as if he is getting rid of the evil out of him and those people to the right might be crying for him to get better. With all of the other objects in the painting, it shows that maybe everything is passing by him and not noticing him. For example people are just walking all over him not caring about his emotions.

Landscape Near

Figueras (1910)

Salvador Dalí painted this beautiful little landscape over a postcard when he was six years old. Yes! Just six years old. You can see parts of the motive on the postcard shines through the paint

The

Persistence

of Memory

(1931)This is one of the best. After

entertaining guests in the

evening, Dalí sat at the table

looking upon the soft, half melted

Camembert cheese. Suddenly the

idea of melting watches came to

him and he immediately got to

work.

influence and style