Salvador Dali's Surrealism
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"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee a Second Before Awakening," or "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee" for short, is a "hand-painted dream photograph" that Dali did in 1944 while living in America with his wife. Dali's wife, Gala, is the subject of this piece. She can be seen laying nude, levitating above a rock in front of an ocean. The surrealist elements of this piece lie in the animals, primarily the tiger coming out of the fish attached to the pomegranate and the long-legged elephant in the background. Dali often used elephants in his surrealist works, with elephants also appearing in "Swans Reflecting Elephants" (1937) and "The Elephant" (1948). The elephants in this piece very closely resemble the elephants from "The Elephants," which is featured below.
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"The Elephants" is a surrealist piece that Dali painted in 1948. Unlike Dali's other works, the animals are the primary subjects in "The Elephants." This specific representation of the elephant first appeared in the background of Dali's earlier work, "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee a Second Before Awakening." However, that elephant was white, representing a sailboat on the water, while these elephants are brown to match the landscape on which they are standing.