Dali, Salvador - Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around Pomegrante..postcard

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• Work of art title: Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up, 1944
• Artist (if known): Salvador Dali
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Lugano-Castagnola Thyssen Bonemisza Collection / Benedikt Taschen
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. A short, alternate title for the painting is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee. It was painted in 1944, while Dalí and his wife, Gala, were living in America.^[1]

In this “hand-painted dream photograph” — as Dalí generally called his paintings — we find a seascape of distant horizons and calm waters, perhaps Port Lligat, amidst which Gala is the subject of the scene. Next to the naked body of the sleeping woman, which levitates above a flat rock that floats above the sea, Dalí depicts two suspended droplets of water and a pomegranate, a Christian symbol of fertility and resurrection.^[2] Above the pomegranate flies a bee, an insect that traditionally symbolizes the Virgin.^[3]

In the upper left of the painting a fish bursts out of the pomegranate, and in turn spews out a tiger who then spews out another tiger and a rifle with a bayonet that will sting Gala in the arm. Above them an elephant with long flamingo legs, found in other compositions of the period such as Dalí's The Temptations of St. Anthony, carries on its back an obelisk — like Bernini’s Elephant and Obelisk in the Piazza Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. ^[4][5]

The bayonet, as a symbol of the stinging bee, may thus represent the woman's abrupt awakening from her otherwise peaceful dream. This is an example of Sigmund Freud's influence on surrealist art and Dalí's attempts to explore the world of dreams in a dreamscape.^[1]

The elephant is a distorted version of the Piazza della Minerva sculpture Elephant and Obelisk by Gian Lorenzo Bernini facing the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome.^[6] The smaller pomegranate floating between two droplets of water may symbolize Venus, especially because of the heart-shaped shadow it casts.^[6] It may also be used as a Christian symbol of fertility and resurrection.^[7] This female symbolism may contrast with the phallic symbolism of the threatening creatures.^[6]

It has also been suggested that the painting is ""a surrealist interpretation of the Theory of Evolution.""^[8]

In 1962, Dalí said his painting was intended ""to express for the first time in images Freud's discovery of the typical dream with a lengthy narrative, the consequence of the instantaneousness of a chance event which causes the sleeper to wake up. Thus, as a bar might fall on the neck of a sleeping person, causing them to wake up and for a long dream to end with the guillotine blade falling on them, the noise of the bee here provokes the sensation of the sting which will awaken Gala.""^[7] The guillotine anecdote refers to a dream reported by Alfred Mauryin Le sommeil et les rêves and related by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/'d??li/;^[1]Catalan: [s??ß?'ðo ð?'?i]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissancemasters.^[2][3] His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his ""love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes""^[4] to an ""Arab lineage"", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.^[5][6]

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