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In this painting,The Three Ages, Dali expresses the three stages in a persons life. From the order in which they appear from left to right they are Old Age, Adolescence and Infancy. Starting with Infancy, the depiction of the child doesn't seem to be totally cut out of the solid brick. This depicts the infants youth and fragileness. It appears as though out of the mountain side there is a sillouhette of what could be seen as a mother figure watching over the child. Moving to Adolescence, the portrait is composed of the face cut out of the solid stone, which represents the growing strength his mind. He is made up of eyes from a mountain and his nose, mouth and chin are made up of what looks like a maid. This represents the still slight vulnerability of the boy. He may have more of a stronger will then before but still need someone to watch out for him. Within Old Age, the man is cut out of completely solid brick. His mind is solid and cannot be changed. His face is composed of trees which represent wisdom.

In this picture, Music-The Seven Arts, Dali portrays what he believes to be one of the seven arts, music. He does this by depicting an old man playing a piano and what appears to be a person with no characteristics playing a chello type instrument that is in the shape of a woman. There is also water flowing from the inside of the piano maybe to say that the music is flowing like water.

In this picture, Melancholy, Dali seems to be saying something about WWII. It appears as though there are three faces within the painting. One being composed of what appears to be clay with a plane transfixed to make the facial features. The tail wing of that plane appears to form a mustache on the face making think that this represents Hitler. There is another face directly above that and another to the direct right of that one. The plane inside the first one is dropping bombs and it appears as though the face above that one is looking on that scene with a sense of content. I also think Dali is making a statement of our past times during the war with his inclusion of baseball players.

In this painting, Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone, it seems as though Dali is trying to say how the horse and carrage are being taken over by the age of the automobile.

In this painting, Dionysus, Dali depicts the God Dionysus through visual representations of the woman and the man in the foreground, and the workers of the fields in the background. Dionysus was the God of wine, agriculture and fertility. Dionysus is depicted as the man who is comprised of the wine bottle. The cherries in his pelvic region obvious are symbolic of the testicles of men which are essential in reproduction. The woman next to him symbolizes fertility. Within her womb region, which is exaggerated extremely, there are many different pictures of fruit all which symbolize the fertility of her womb, and the ability of her to bear "fruit". Next, in the background, the workers tending to the fields represent agriculture.

This is another installment of Dali's Seven Arts series of paintings called Modern Rhapsody. I really have no idea what Dali is trying to say with this one but he seems to be using some familiar images. Of course one of the most prominent images is the eye, which seems to be fixated on the woman. The eye is resting on top of what appears to be an old telephone receiver and the eye lashes eventually turn into phones. Another common image within Dali paintings are the burning giraffes.

In this painting, Wine Glass and Boat, Dali uses perspective and depth perception to paint an image that seem surreal. Obviously, no wine glass would be as big as a boat (unless it is a pretty tiny boat or extremely large glass) but Dali makes it appear that the two object are the same size. Lets assume that each object is of normal size. The way at which we are looking at them; the positions in which they are, the perspective and the use of depth, it appears as though they are of equal size. Dali acheives this by using depth. When we look at two objects; one of which is in the distance and large, the other which is very close and small, if we look at them the right way they apppear to be the same size. This has to do with physics and how our perspective and perception of objects can skew what they really are.

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In this picture, Cannibalism in Autumn, Dali uses two equally elastic and melting figures to portray the cannibalism. The colors that he uses are all common to the colors you would see trees producing in fall; I suppose this is where the autumn part comes in.

I'm not sure what this painting, Poetry of America, is trying to say but it is very pleasing to the eye so I have included it on my blog as one of my posts.

In Meditative Rose, Dali uses a common image in some of his earlier paintings to be the dominant, almost overpowering object in this one. To Dali, the rose symbolized as dealing with female sex, sexual organs and menstruation. Also, red is used as a color of passion and can also be association with death. I do believe though, that this within this particular painting, Dali had the idea of using it to symbolize the couples love below. All roses are a symbol of love and the color of red just intensifies that meaning. The contrast of the red against the blue sky really signifies the intense passion of the couples relationship. And I would guess that the realistic drop of water on the petal symbolizes the reality of the the intesity of the relationship. Possibly this painting was to show Dali's love for Gala.

Salvador Dali, the great Spanish Surrealist, is known worldwide. His artwork has passed through many hands and have travelled far distances. This Dali Museum, which can be found in Florida is a realization of that. It is a fairly quick loading site and has lots of information. According to the site, "The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work".