Salvador Dali

surrealism-cubism

Dali Paintings 1904 - 1989 Spanish Surrealist Painter

First Study For the Madonna of Port lligat, 1949

Oil on canvas, 48x37 cm

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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OIL PAINTING: First Study For the Madonna of Port lligat, 1949
Gala regularly served as a model for Dali: here she is depicted as the Madonna in a painting modeled on Piero della Francesca's altarpiece "Madonna and Child with Saints" (1492-94). The ostrich egg suspended over the Virgin's head is a medieval symbol of the Virgin Birth, but the elements of the painting are suspended in space like particles of atomic matter, reflecting Dali's harnessing of the discoveries of nuclear physics to religious subject matter.