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Galatea of the Spheres, (Galatea de las Esferas)
1952
oil on canvas (65.2 x 53.2 cm.)
Gala Salvador Dalí Foundation, Figueras
This painting reflects upon the spiritual and the scientific.
The
spiritual--a mystical portrait of Gala (Dalí's wife)--and science--the
spheres--are combined to represent the general arrangement
of the universe. This was a theme which Dalí was obsessed
with and painted frequently. In addition to being a technical
marvel of precision and delicacy in resolution of the dual
image, it is also one of the most light-filled and pure versions
of the mystical phase of atomisation and levitation of matter
to be found in Dalí's work in the 1950s. Dalí
himself described this canvas as a "paroxysm of joy."
Thanks
to:
http://www.dali-estate.org/eng/fmuseus.htm
and
http://www.spanisharts.com
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