Dali
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At the Dali Museum in Figueres, a masterpiece watches over the patrons.
This painting is an example of Dali’s paranoiac-critical method, developed in the early 1930s. The aspect of paranoia that Dalí was interested in was the ability of the brain to perceive links between things which rationally are not linked. Ballerina In A Death's Head , 1932
I don't know much at all about the artist - only became interested after reading Duma Key - but now I have a great appreciation of Dali, and I am intrigued by his religious art. I read that he was raised by a devout Catholic mother and a staunch atheist father. So I'm not sure about the meaning behind his paintings of Christ, the Blessed Mother and other religious scenes. I love art representing Our Lady.
I don't know much at all about the artist - only became interested after reading Duma Key - but now I have a great appreciation of Dali, and I am intrigued by his religious art. I read that he was raised by a devout Catholic mother and a staunch atheist father. So I'm not sure about the meaning behind his paintings of Christ, the Blessed Mother and other religious scenes. I love art representing Our Lady.
Somewhere in this image, there’s a couple. Where are they and what are they doing?
This image is not a Dali. I'm posting it in this thread because Dali used pareidolia in many of his paintings.
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-doh-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead") in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον "image, form, shape") the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data.