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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [b] [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE; [2] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [c] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and ...
The Font (1930) The Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida; Free Inclination of Desire (1930) Yale University Art Gallery; The Ghost of the Evening (1930) Gradiva (Study for "The Invisible Man") (1930) The Great Masturbator – Frontispiece for "The Visible Woman" (1930) The Hand (La main) (1930) The Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida; Head of ...
Tuna Fishing is a large canvas (roughly four metres by three metres) it depicts the Almadraba, a traditional form of tuna fishing which involves herding schools of tuna into smaller and smaller nets, before hauling them ashore with grappling hooks and slaughtering them (the word almadraba means "slaughter") The scene is filled chaotically with the violent struggle of the men in the picture and ...
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The painting's title is a portmanteau of the name of Dalí's wife, Gala Dalí, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It is a tribute to Francis Crick and James D. Watson , who are credited with determining the double helical structure of DNA in 1953.
The painting is dominated by a depiction of a stemmed silver fruit bowl containing pears. A deliberately created optical illusion of the human face occupies the same space as the dish; the fruits suggest wavy hair, the dish's bowl becomes the forehead, the stem of the dish serves as the bridge of the nose, and the dish's foot doubles as the chin.
Galatea of the Spheres is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in 1952. It depicts Gala Dalí, Salvador Dalí's wife and muse, as pieced together through a series of spheres arranged in a continuous array.
The Invisible Man is a 1929–1932 surrealist oil on canvas by Salvador Dalí, now in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. [1] It is an experimental work, drawing on ancient Egyptian art and the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo .