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@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:11 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Autorretrato Cubista" (Cubist Self-Portrait) (1923)
Oil and collage on paperboard glued to wood.
104 x 75 cm (41 x 29.5 in).
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
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$"Autorretrato Cubista" (Cubist Self-Portrait), painted by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí in 1923. Key Details About the Artwork Artist: Salvador Dalí Movement: Cubism (specifically drawing from the influence of Analytical Cubism and L'Esprit Nouveau) Medium: Oil and collage on paperboard glued to wood Current Location: It is housed in the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain Artistic Context Created while Dalí was a student in Madrid, this painting captures a brief period before he became a defining figure of Surrealism. In the piece, his face is reduced to a stylized, mask-like shape heavily inspired by African aesthetics and fractured into abstract, geometric shards. Interwoven within the shards are collaged newspaper clippings and everyday objects, typical of the Cubist exploration of multiple perspectives and textures$

@katphoto.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 8:05 PM

Plongez dans l'univers fantastique du Défilé Dalí à Perpignan (Août 2026) 🎨🦄
Découvrez comment Salvador Dalí a été imaginé à cheval lors de cet événement exceptionnel ! 🐎
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@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:45 PM

Salvador Dalí
"The Elephants" (1948)
oil on canvas | 49 × 60 cm (19 × 24 in).
Private Collection
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The Elephants (Els Elefants) by the Catalan artist Salvador Dalí.
features two gigantic elephants with extremely long, spindly, multi-jointed legs walking across an empty, hazy landscape against an orange-red sunset. Each elephant carries an architectural obelisk or pavilion on its back, a motif inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's elephant sculpture in Rome. Two tiny human figures stand in the vast desert space near a small building in the center, emphasizing the monumental and dreamlike scale of the creatures.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:45 PM

Salvador Dalí
"The Triangular Hour" (1933)
oil on canvas | 62.3 x 47.9 cm (24.5 x 18.9 in).
Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan
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"The Triangular Hour" (L'heure triangulaire), painted by the Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dalí in 1933.

Visual Themes
The painting incorporates several recurring motifs typical of Dalí's subconscious, dreamlike landscapes:
The Melting Clock: A distortion of time draped softly over a prominent rock formation.
The Hollow Rock Formation: A large hole opening up a window into a quiet desert horizon.
Classic Catalonian Landscapes: The rocky hills, dramatic cloud-filled sky, and isolated elements like the cypress tree reflect Dalí's native Portlligat region

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 4:02 PM

Salvador #Dalí on his chopper

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 10:32 AM

Salvador Dalí
"Autumnal Cannibalism" (1936)
Oil on canvas | 65.1 × 65.1 cm (25.6 × 25.6 in).
Tate Modern, London
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Autumnal Cannibalism, created by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in 1936.
Key Details
Subject: Two figures locked in a mutually destructive, cannibalistic embrace on a table-top that blends into a Spanish landscape.
Symbolism: Painted just after the Spanish Civil War began, it symbolizes countrymen destroying one another. The apple on the male figure's head alludes to the legend of William Tell.
Location: The original oil painting is held by the Tate Modern in London.
Context & Historical Background
Dalí painted this piece in 1936, directly following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. While his contemporary Pablo Picasso responded to the devastation of the war with political rage in Guernica, Dalí took a more detached, surreal approach. He famously claimed to view the tragic conflict not through a political lens, but as a "delirium of edibles"—a natural, institutionalized self-destruction inherent to human history.
The Cannibalistic Embrace: The central focus shows an amorous, intertwined couple sitting on a chest of drawers. They lack clear facial features, and their bodies melt together as they use spoons, forks, and knives to slice and eat each other's flesh. This represents how the civil war forced countrymen of the same nation to destroy one another in a mutually assured path of ruin.
The William Tell Apple: Balanced perfectly on the head of the male figure is an apple. Dalí frequently used the legend of William Tell (where a father is forced to shoot an arrow at an apple on his son's head) as a deep psychological symbol for generational conflict, family trauma, and a father trying to destroy his son.
The Catalonian Landscape: The tabletop transitions seamlessly into the barren, rocky, and sun-baked earth tones of the Empordà region in Catalonia, Spain, where Dalí grew up.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 4:11 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Surrealist Flower Girl" from 'Memories of Surrealism Suite'
(1971)
lithograph and etching | Image/Plate Size: 20.75 × 16.38 in. (52.7 × 41.6 cm)
Plates intentionally destroyed.
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"Surrealist Flower Girl" (also known as Surrealist Flower-Girl or Femme à la Tête de Rose). It is a famous 1971 color lithograph and etching created by the Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dalí.
The piece belongs to his celebrated portfolio suite titled Memories of Surrealism (Souvenirs du Surréalisme), published by Transworld Art in New York.
Key Elements of the Artwork:
The Rose Head: Replacing a human head with a blooming flower is a signature recurring motif in Dalí's surrealism, juxtaposing natural beauty with the human form. A stamp-like emblem on the left explicitly marks the work as "Dali nouveauté 1971".
The Gown of Eggs: The woman's torso and dress are formed from an intricate grid arrangement of various bird and reptile eggs, heavily detailed with distinct speckling and patterns. Eggs were one of Dalí's most prominent symbols, representing hope, birth, and purity.
The Landscape Background: The background opens up into a vast, minimalist desert-like plain, framed by a chaotic, stone-textured or water-like undulating cavern gateway. A lonely blue flower grows isolated on the distant horizon.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 2:12 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina" (1952)
oil on canvas | 229.9 x 144.2 cm (90.5 x 56.8 in).
Masaveu Collection, Oviedo, Spain
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Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (also known as Lapis-Lazuli Corpuscular Assumption), painted by the famous Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in 1952.
Key Elements of the Artwork
The Central Theme: The painting represents the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven. Dalí integrates religious themes with his fascination for modern nuclear physics—a phase in his career often referred to as Nuclear Mysticism.
Gala as the Madonna: The face at the top of the canvas belongs to Dalí's wife and muse, Gala, who portrays the ascending Virgin Mary. The structure above her head echoes the architecture of the Pantheon dome in Rome, serving as an architectural halo.
The Crucified Christ: Suspended mid-canvas, a figure of Christ is shown from a dramatic overhead angle, a perspective heavily borrowed from Dalí's own famous work, Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951).
The Base Sphere: At the bottom, a delicate, latticed armillary sphere floats over the sea, encapsulating a cluster of small spheres that resemble cosmic eggs or atomic particles.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 3:32 PM

Salvador Dalí: Feminine head which has the form of a battle
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@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 14, 2026, 1:33 PM

Salvador Dalí
"The Madonna of Port Lligat" (1949)
Oil on canvas | 49.5 x 38.3 cm. (19 1/2 x 15 1/16 in.). Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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The First Study for the 'Madonna of Port Lligat' (1949) by the famous Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.

Key Elements & Meaning
The Transition to "Nuclear Mysticism": Painted after World War II and the atomic bombings, this piece marks Dalí’s transition away from traditional Surrealism toward a phase he called Nuclear Mysticism. He combined his renewed interest in Catholicism with his fascination and fear of modern nuclear physics.

The Floating Elements: Notice how all the objects, figures, and architecture are disconnected and floating in mid-air. Dalí explained this fragmentation and levitation as the "atomic age" equivalent of divine gravitation, showing matter being broken down into particles.

The Madonna: The Virgin Mary is modeled after Dalí's beloved wife, manager, and primary muse, Gala.

The Torsos: Both Mary and the Infant Jesus have large, rectangular holes cut completely through their torsos. This "dematerialization" opens up the solid figures, allowing you to see directly through them to the sea and sky, symbolizing their transcendent and spiritual status.

The Egg and Shell: Hanging directly above the Madonna’s head by a fine thread is an egg suspended from a seashell. Heavily inspired by the Renaissance masterpiece The Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca, the egg serves as a medieval symbol of the Immaculate Conception and purity.

Dalí actually presented this specific initial 1949 version to Pope Pius XII in Rome for his personal blessing. A year later in 1950, he expanded upon these ideas to paint a massive, final version of The Madonna of Port Lligat featuring even more elaborate details (such as a rhinoceros horn, bread, and angels).

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 4:38 PM

Salvador #Dalí and Babou, his pet Ocelot, 1965

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 2:58 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Surrealist Object Gauge of Instantaneous Memory" (1932)
oil on canvas | 75 x 63 cm (29.5 × 24.8 in).
Private Collection
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Surrealist Object Gauge of Instantaneous Memory painted by Salvador Dalí in 1932.
It is an oil on canvas painting showcasing Dalí's classic surrealist landscape style featuring dreamlike reflections, a cypress tree, and strange objects.
The original piece measures 75 x 63 cm and is currently held in a private collection.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 1:44 PM

Salvador Dalí
"The Elephants" (Large) (1948)
oil on canvas | 72 cm × 91 cm (28.3 in × 35.8 in).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
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"The Elephants" a famous 1948 surrealist oil painting by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí.
The Subjects: Two gigantic, weightless elephants with extremely long, multi-jointed spider-like legs pace through a sparse desert landscape under a reddish-orange twilight sky.
The Symbolism: Each elephant carries a symbolic architectural feature (specifically an obelisk reminiscent of Bernini's sculpture in Rome) on its back, representing weight, power, and future fragility.

@bernieshoot.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 6:00 AM

Rencontre au sommet à Milan : JISBAR fait dialoguer ses toiles pop-street art avec les sculptures surréalistes de Salvador Dalí. Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur cette exposition événement ! 🎨✨
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JISBAR souriant appuyé sur un socle au centre d'une galerie d'art contemporain, entouré de grandes peintures pop colorées mêlant icônes classiques, textes et collages.

@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 2:25 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Autumnal Cannibalism" (1936)
oil on canvas | 65.1 x 65.1 cm (25.6 x 25.6 in).
Tate Modern Museum, London
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"Autumnal Cannibalism" (1936) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, currently housed in the Tate Modern in London.
The surrealist work depicts two faceless, melting figures merging in a violent embrace while consuming each other, symbolizing the destructive political climate of the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War: Dalí painted this masterpiece shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The two intertwined figures locked in a mutual, destructive embrace serve as a powerful allegory for the self-destruction of a nation tearing itself apart.
The Setting: The background depicts a desolate, stark plain inspired by the windswept landscape of Ampurdán in Catalonia, Spain, where Dalí grew up.

@vanchristmasguide.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 2:03 PM

How Salvador #Dalí saw #Santa...

@amicsmuseusdali.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 10:31 AM

🧄🎨 Com seria un allioli surrealista?

Tornem a la Fira de Creixell per premiar la proposta més daliniana.

📅 13 de setembre
📍 Creixell, Borrassà

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@seamusaloysius.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 5:26 PM

Salvador Dalí
"Figure at a Window" (1925)
oil on canvas | 105 x 74.5 cm (41.3 x 29.3 in).
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
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"Young Woman at a Window" (also known as "Figura en una finestra" or "Muchacha en la ventana"), a famous 1925 oil painting by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí.
Key Facts About the ArtworkThe Artist: Painted by Salvador Dalí in 1925 during his youth, before he fully leaned into his iconic surrealist style. This piece is a prominent example of his early realism phase.
The Model: The woman seen from behind is Dalí’s sister, Ana María, who was his primary model during the 1920s.
The Setting: She is looking out over the bay of Cadaqués, a coastal town in Catalonia, Spain, where the Dalí family owned a holiday home.

@amicsmuseusdali.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 1:02 PM

✨ Més temps per descobrir com Dalí va mirar Gaudí.

L’interès despertat per «Dalí admira Gaudí» permet prorrogar l’exposició fins al 15 d’octubre al COAC de Figueres. 👇

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