Just like our professor, I really like Salvador Dali. Dreams have always fascinated me. Dali´s surrealism, based on his paranoid-critical method and inspired by Freud´s theories, makes his representation of images surprising and supernatural.
Dali´s Works are like a visual explosión. I especially like the painting ´´Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranite a Second Before Awakening.´´ I saw it for the first time in an art book that included works by Salvador Dali among other surrealists. I was dazzled by the image, by the unrelated elements (a tiger, a woman, a pomegranate, etc). I was perplexed and confused…
In the painting, Gala (Dali´s wife) is asleep, floating naked in the sea and laying across a slab of rock. A fish comes out of the pomegranate, and from its mouth come the head and front feet of a tigre, and from its jaws jumps another tiger. Finally the body of the second feline, in position to attack and launched toward the naked sleeping woman, holds a gun with a bayonet whose point reaches Gala´s arm. The bee sting suggested in the title of the work is a real risk for the sleeping woman, who in dreams is transformed into a symbolic sting. The painter suggests that she could be stung in an instant (which is the second that passes in the act of awakening), an action with multiple motives. Just like the sleeping woman who wakes up from a dream of just a few seconds and things she´s seen a long and complicated movie, the spectator perceives the singular time of the dream. Dreams are timeless. In them the laws of time and space don´t apply. Very interesting!
Dali´s Works are like a visual explosión. I especially like the painting ´´Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranite a Second Before Awakening.´´ I saw it for the first time in an art book that included works by Salvador Dali among other surrealists. I was dazzled by the image, by the unrelated elements (a tiger, a woman, a pomegranate, etc). I was perplexed and confused…
In the painting, Gala (Dali´s wife) is asleep, floating naked in the sea and laying across a slab of rock. A fish comes out of the pomegranate, and from its mouth come the head and front feet of a tigre, and from its jaws jumps another tiger. Finally the body of the second feline, in position to attack and launched toward the naked sleeping woman, holds a gun with a bayonet whose point reaches Gala´s arm. The bee sting suggested in the title of the work is a real risk for the sleeping woman, who in dreams is transformed into a symbolic sting. The painter suggests that she could be stung in an instant (which is the second that passes in the act of awakening), an action with multiple motives. Just like the sleeping woman who wakes up from a dream of just a few seconds and things she´s seen a long and complicated movie, the spectator perceives the singular time of the dream. Dreams are timeless. In them the laws of time and space don´t apply. Very interesting!
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I love artists who use the knowledge of psychology to their creations:)