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This poster is a quality paper image designed to be displayed on a wall. This item is a regular-sized poster known as a Maxi Poster and is approx. 61×91.5cm. (The size of some items may vary slightly due to the age and/or the publisher of the image, but most are 61×91.5cm. If your poster must be an exact size, then please contact us for the measurement before committing to buy).
The item(s) will be dispatched in a suitable tube (rolled not folded). Maxi Posters can also be purchased laminated, blockmounted, or framed.
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The elephant is a recurring image in Dali’s works. It first appeared in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. The elephants, inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture base in Rome of an elephant carrying an ancient obelisk, are portrayed ‘with long, multi-jointed, almost invisible legs of desire’ along with obelisks on their backs. Coupled with the image of their brittle legs, these encumbrances, noted for their phallic overtones, create a sense of phantom reality. ‘The elephant is a distortion in space,’ one analysis explains, ‘its spindly legs contrasting the idea of weightlessness with structure.’
As Dali said: “I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.”
SOURCE: dalipaintings.com
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