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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
Surrealist Dinner on a Bed (Drawing for a Film Project with the Marx Brothers) (1937) Surrealist Gondola Above Burning Bicycles (Drawing for a Film Project with the Marx Brothers) (1937) Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; Untitled – Hysterical Scene (1937) Untitled – Lamp with Drawers (Drawing for an interior ...
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 ...
Edward James wrote a collection of four poems, Sécheresses, and Francis Poulenc set them to music for choir (mixed voices SATB) and piano or orchestra in 1937. [29] — (1982). Melly, George (ed.). Swans Reflecting Elephants, My Early Years. London: Weidenfeld.
Dali's Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Smarthistory Metamorphosis of Narcissus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí , from 1937. Originally titled Métamorphose de Narcisse, [ 1 ] This painting is from Dalí's paranoiac-critical period and depicts his interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus.
In the distance is a giraffe with its back on fire. Dalí first used the burning giraffe image in his 1930 film L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age). [3] It appears again in 1937 in the painting The Invention of Monsters. [3] Dalí described this image as "the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster". He believed it to be a premonition of war.
Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (or Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of Contemporary Cinema), also known as the Barcelona Sphinx, [1] is an artwork in gouache, pastel and collage on cardboard, by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, from 1939.
A parade of elephants led by a horse approach St. Anthony. The horse is a depiction of Satan (note the reverse of the hooves); many artists of the Middle Ages depicted anything other than Christian as upside down or reverse, and Dalí did the same here, but the horse as Satan was described by Dalí as beautiful, terrible and impossible.