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Salvador Dali
Swans Reflecting Elephants - Salvador Dali, 1937 |
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The swans and the twisted trees are reflected in the lake as elephants. Dali called this technique paranoiac-critical, where hallucination and reality seem to merge. |  View on Allposters.com |
Soldier Take Warning - Salvador Dali, 1942 |
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Dali made this painting to warn the soldiers against venereal diseases during the second world war. I guess they had other things on their mind. |
Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment (Volto di Mae West) - Salvador Dali, 1935 |
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Your first impression of the painting would be that this is the face of a woman (Mae West in particular). But then you see that the mouth is a red sofa. And the eyes are paintings on a wall ... And the hair is a curtain ... | | View on Allposters.com |
The Image Disappears - Salvador Dali, 1938 |
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A somewhat mysterious picture of a bearded man (Dali himself ?) and, on closer sight, a scene with a woman. Dali's moustache is her arm, his eye is her head and his beard is her skirt. |
Human Skull Consisting of Seven Naked Womens Bodies (In Voluptate Mors) - Salvador Dali, 1951 |
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Photograph by Philippe Halsman after a drawing by Dali. You didn’t reach this site with the keywords "naked women", did you ? | | View on Allposters.com |
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire - Salvador Dali, 1940 |
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Two 17th century Dutch merchants in a slave market show the bust of Voltaire by Houdon. Click on the enlarged picture to see the bust. Some sources believe the merchants are nuns ; in that case the right nun has a beard ... |
Apparition of a War Scene on the Face of Lieutenant Deschanel - Salvador Dali, 1939 |
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Cover of Match magazine, october 12, 1939. |
Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The Three Ages) - Salvador Dali, 1940 |
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The landscape reveals three busts of men in different stages of their life : old man, adult, baby. You can see the town of Port Lligat through the arches of the ruins of Ampurias. |
Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach - Salvador Dali, 1938 |
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Maybe you don't like this painting at first sight. But it's a work of a genius. There are four scenes in one : you can see an Afghan dog, a face, a table with a fruit dish in the middle and a desert landscape looking out on the sea. The bridge in the landscape is the dog's collar, the figure in the desert is nose and mouth of the face. | | View on Allposters.com |
Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea - Salvador Dali, 1976 |
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The full title is "Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln". And that's exactly what's happing here. Take a look at the picture, get out of your chair and take some distance, then look again. You'll see Lincoln ! There are several versions of this picture, sometimes also called "Lincoln in Dalivision". | | View on Allposters.com |
The Skull of Zurbarán - Salvador Dali, 1956 |
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The buildings look like a skull from a distance, the priests being the teeth. The buildings are also ambiguous : you can see them as a blok or as hollow, depending on how you look at them. |
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