Description
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
An art print is a high quality image printed on heavy paper. Art prints are available in a multitude of sizes and are designed to be framed. There are thousands of images from across a myriad of genres including the great masters like Van Gogh and Monet.
Some art prints fill the page, but a majority have a border so the size of the image is normally smaller than the size of the paper. The size stated here is the size of the paper.
Some general art print classifications include Fine Art, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art, Pop Art, Vintage Art, Decorative Art and of course Photographic.
