The Contributions Of Salvador Dali's Swans Reflecting Elephants By Salvador Dai

In the early 1920 a new era of art began one that required you to think deep and investigate our thoughts to understand the depiction of life or a dream state. Imagination, subconscious and conscious minds are all apart of creating surrealistic art; Surrealism is not just paintings and sculptures it also includes literature. Art from all over was now made to “evoke a response” from the world around them and the war that took it over. Artist like Max Earnest and Salvador Dali were huge influences for this movement and made great contributions through thei r artistic genius and ability to self-analysis and express. “Swans Reflecting Elephants” is an amazing painting created by Salvador Dali and “The Elephants Celebes” by Max Ernest. Where did

Picasso was involved is all aspects of the surrealism, later on in his career he got involved with films. Salvador’s one of the more major and influencers of the movement paintings were usually saturated with color. Themes of Dali’s work usually consist of “Man’s universe and sensations, sexual symbolism and ideographic imagery. Salvador Dali’s major contribution to surrealism was he “paranoiac-critical” method that exercised the mind to help people obtain and reached their fullest artist creativity ability. This exercise would help bring the subconscious to reality through imagery and

Looking at this paining is seeming as though you are looking at the backside of an elephant and at the end of the long wrinkled tail there is a woman’s torso with horns attached to what would be the shoulders and coming out the left side of the elephant are two tusk that would be attached to the actual head. But it is also believed that you are looking the head first and at the end of what would be the trunk is the head and that this elephant would in fact be sightless and horns would be the top of the head and the explanation of the tusk on the bottom left side is that the belong to another possible head on the animal. The Elephant Celebes is seen as a college like painting because of the random features of the painting such as the headless torso in the bottom right and the two fish swimming in the sky in the top