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Apparatus and Hand 1927 oil on panel 24.5 x 18.75 inches In this painting Dali creates a strange, dreamlike scene, dominated by a weird contraption in the foreground that is part human, part geometric robot, which Dali refers to as an apparatus. Perhaps the apparatus is himself, with an eye, two thin legs, a cane which is something he liked to carry, and a painter's hand coming out of the top of his head. This is science fiction as he has made an image of what could be called a cyborg, part human, part machine and the unknown.
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Cavalier of Death 1935 'The Rider of Death,'was a theme that Dali explored in 1935 in many drawings and paintings. This is an ink drawing depicting a skeletal horseman in a landscape littered with bones. The horseman and horse are decomposing on the page, turning into ink, the material they were painted with. The theme is Spanish and recalls of Don Quixote's travels, the horseman, a bit of a buffoon, battling mostly ideas in his own head. Dali was tormented by anxieties that he battled throughout his life time. The image embodies Dali's themes of gallant tragedy, death, battle, and the absurd. |
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Meditation on the Harp: 1932-34 67 x 47 cm. This painting was made when Dali became influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud on dreams and the unconscious. The large dark figure in front represents Oedipus, here the couple's son who, 'intervenes in the relationship between his father and mother and embodies the death ' In keeping with the Freudian interpretation, the son is portrayed with a very large, bone-like foot as Oedipus, whose name is literally translated as 'swollen foot.' About the couple, Dali refers to the woman as a peasant femme fatale character and the male peasant's hat is hiding an erection from her. |
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Persistence of Memory 1931 Persistence of Memory expresses the eternal theme of time and the limitation of our existence with the boundary of time. Perhaps this is why this painting has been reproduced more than any of his other work. The concern for time, how we use time, where time goes, what time means is eternal and feels as relevant today than ever.Insects crawling over the watch suggest death and decay, the never ending cycle with life. Larger than life watches melt over a tree branch, drape a dead man's head, and turn the corner of a landscape within this fantastic painting. Dali paints what seem to be varied dimensions of time and space within a haunting landscape of geometry and desert. Seventy years after this was painted, scientists theorize that there are at least ten dimensions of time and space. Persistence of Memory is one of Dali's earliest masterpieces and most celebrated paintings. |
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