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... But here is her antithesis: a not precisely refined lady, painted the year before by Dali.

Salvador Dali - Cannibalism of the Objects (gouache and ink, 1937)

This a horrible but fascinating image.

I has the studied skills of DaVinci with the weird mind of Dali. What a combination that would have made Leonardo Da Dali or Salvador DaVinci? Quite a thought/

A strange image.

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Dear friends,

Here is The Image Disappears, one of the best-known "illusions through the paintings of Salvador Dali," as these characteristic works have been called; in this case, a somewhat mysterious picture of a bearded man (Dali himself?) and, on closer sight, a scene with a woman. Dali's moustache is her arm, his eye is her head and his beard is her skirt.

Note: I think Dali drew inspiration for this painting from Jan Vermeer's works, which he seems to have deeply admired - to a degree that he painted several versions of the latter's Lacemaker. Plus if you note, the checkered floor in this painting by Dali is characteristic of Vermeer floors.

Salvador Dali - The Image Disappears (oil on canvas, 1938)

Wonderful.

It's the brush skills that are so evident.

Dali manages the illusion with a really historical feel. Definitely that dutch feel.

Roger

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Three more "optical illusions" by Dali, all from around the same epoch - two of them, Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Three Ages, most famous ones:

Salvador Dali - Paranoiac Visage (oil on canvas, 1935)

Salvador Dali - Metamorphosis of Narcissus (oil on canvas, 1937)

Salvador Dali - Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy ('The Three Ages'), (oil on canvas, 1940)

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Three more "optical illusions" by Dali, all from around the same epoch - two of them, Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Three Ages, most famous ones:

Salvador Dali - Paranoiac Visage (oil on canvas, 1935)

Salvador Dali - Metamorphosis of Narcissus (oil on canvas, 1937)

Salvador Dali - Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy ('The Three Ages'), (oil on canvas, 1940)

I am so in awe of Dali's skill in bringing his imagination to a canvass. It's one thing setting out to produce an illusion but to actually do it is spectacular. Look at the different styles involved here. Different styles even within the same painting.

Roger