Artist: Salvador Dalí
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: c. 1970
Dali’s paintings tell stories, and this painting is a story of a toreador (bullfighter) and his love for the Venus, both strongly representing masculinity and femininity, respectively. But their love can never be fulfilled, because the toreador dies, as does the bull (pictured near the lower left). Continue reading The Hallucinogenic Toreador
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: c. 1937
Metamorphosis of Narcissus is Dalí’s interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a youth of great beauty who loved only himself and broke the hearts of many lovers. The gods punished him by letting him see his own reflection in a pool. He fell in love with it, but discovered he could not embrace it and died of frustration. Relenting, the gods immortalized him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. Continue reading Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: c. 1938
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: c. 1931
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Medium: oil on canvas
Date: c. 1937
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a prominent Spanish Surrealist painter and is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century. Dalí was a leading figure in the French Surrealist Art Movement and his fiercely technical, yet highly unconventional paintings, sculptures and public behavior ushered in a new generation of imaginative expression. Continue reading Salvador Dalí
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