Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach | |
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Artist | Salvador Dalí |
Year | 1938 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 114.8 cm × 143.8 cm (45.2 in × 56.6 in) |
Location | Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This work belongs to a group of paintings by Dalí that instantiate an optical illusion called the double, multiple, or ambiguous image.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The painting is dominated by a depiction of a stemmed silver fruit bowl containing pears. A deliberately created optical illusion of the human face occupies the same space as the dish; the fruits suggest wavy hair, the dish's bowl becomes the forehead, the stem of the dish serves as the bridge of the nose, and the dish's foot doubles as the chin. The eyes of the large face, however, are formed by background objects lying on the sand at the edge of the strand — deeper in the image — rather than sharing form with the fruit dish. The face's right eye is what appears to be a clay vase lying on its side, and the face's left eye a sprawling child. A similar face reappears other paintings by Dalí, including The Endless Enigma.[7][8]
In the middle ground of the scene, where the sand of the beach appears to end, a small version of the fruit dish/face can be seen on the ground with a few pears scattered near it. Another face appears further back, just to the right of the elbow of the nude male figure. In the same area of the painting, two dogs are playing along a path in the distance. One of those dogs is itself an echo of the immense, illusionary figure of a dog which stretches from the left to the right margin of the painting, with the dog's collar formed by a multi-arched bridge or aqueduct in the landscape beyond. This repetition of shapes is a frequent motif in Dalí's surrealist works.[1]
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach is part of the Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b Finkelstein, Haim (1983). "Salvador Dalí: Double and Multiple Images". American Imago. 40 (4): 311–335. ISSN 0065-860X. JSTOR 26303569.
- ^ Martinez-Conde, Susana; Conley, Dave; Hine, Hank; Kropf, Joan; Tush, Peter; Ayala, Andrea; Macknik, Stephen L. (2015). "Marvels of illusion: illusion and perception in the art of Salvador Dali". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9: 496. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00496. ISSN 1662-5161. PMC 4586274. PMID 26483651.
- ^ LaFountain, Marc J. (2016). Dali and Postmodernism : This Is Not an Essence. Ithaca: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-0989-4. OCLC 953656974.
- ^ Wolff, Theodore F. (1997). Art criticism and education. George Geahigan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 166–67. ISBN 0-252-06614-6. OCLC 35397771.
- ^ Toyne, Jessica (2021-04-27). Dali: Essential Artists. Character-19.
- ^ Trumper, Mark Alan. Landscapes Unique: Manuscripts to Paranoics. [Master's thesis. Eastern Illinois University.] Booth Library of Eastern Illinois University. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4712&context=theses
- ^ Ades, Dawn (2000). Dalí's Optical Illusions. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Hartford, Conn.: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. ISBN 0-300-08177-4. OCLC 41834269.
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Seckel, Al (2004). Masters of deception : Escher, Dalí & the artists of optical illusion. Douglas R. Hofstadter. New York. p. 37. ISBN 1-4027-0577-8. OCLC 54677815.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Surreal Scenes". Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
External links
- Large image viewable via the online gift shop of the Wadsworth Atheneum
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- List of works
- Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
- Vilabertran (1913)
- Cabaret Scene (1922)
- Portrait of My Father (1925)
- Young Woman at a Window (1925)
- The Basket of Bread (1926)
- Apparatus and Hand (1927)
- The Lugubrious Game (1929)
- The First Days of Spring (1929)
- The Accommodations of Desire (1929)
- The Great Masturbator (1929)
- The Invisible Man (1929–1932)
- The Persistence of Memory (1931)
- The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
- Morphological Echo (1934–1936)
- A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936)
- Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937)
- Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
- The Burning Giraffe (1937)
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
- Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
- Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
- The Enigma of Hitler (1939)
- Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
- The Face of War (1940)
- Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
- Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1944)
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
- Basket of Bread (1945)
- The Apotheosis of Homer (1945)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
- The Elephants (1948)
- Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
- Leda Atomica (1949)
- The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
- Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
- Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
- The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954)
- The Colossus of Rhodes (1954)
- Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
- Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
- The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
- Living Still Life (1956)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1957)
- The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
- The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
- Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
- La Gare de Perpignan (1965)
- Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
- The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970)
- La Toile Daligram (1972)
- Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973)
- Lincoln in Dalivision (1977)
- The Swallow's Tail (1983)
- Lobster Telephone (1936)
- Lobster dress (1937)
- Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
- Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
- Rainy Taxi (1938)
- A Logician Devil (1951)
- Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
- Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
- Être Dieu (1985)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
- Destino (1946, completed 2003)
and costumes
- Mariana Pineda (1927 production)
- Gala Dalí (wife)
- Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
- Paranoiac-critical method
- Salvador Dalí and dance
- Chupa Chups
- Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph)
- Salvador Dalí (1966 film)
- The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film)
- Little Ashes (2008 film)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Dalíland (2022 film)
- "Salvador Dalí" (song)
- 2919 Dali (asteroid)
- Dali crater
- Salvador Dalí Desert
- Dalí cross
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