Salvador Dali: Invention of Monsters

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Invention of Monsters ● La invención de los monstruos ● L'invention des monstres
Salvador Dalí, 1937 - Oil on panel, 51.2 x 78.5 cm - The Art Institute of Chicago (Joseph Winterbotham Collection), Chicago, Il.

● Dali wrote the following explanation: "…According to Nostradamus, the apparition of monsters is a presage of war. This canvas was painted in the mountains of Semmering* a few months before the Anschluss** and it has a prophetic character. The women-horses represent the maternal river-monsters, the flaming giraffe the male cosmic apocalyptic monster. The angel-cat is the divine heterosexual monster, the hour-glass the metaphysical monster. Gala and Dal? together the sentimental monster. The little lonely blue dog is not a true monster.'* [South of Vienna] * *[Annexation of Austria into the German Reich]

● Dalí escribió la siguiente explicación: “…De acuerdo con Nostradamus, la aparición de monstruos es el presagio de una guerra. Este cuadro fue pintado en las montañas de Semmering* unos meses antes del Anschluss** y tiene un carácter profético. La mujer caballo representa a los monstruos de río maternales, la girafa ardiendo el monstruo varón cósmico y apocalíptico. El gato ángel es el monstruo divino heterosexual, el reloj de arena el monstruo metafísico. Gala y Dalí juntos el monstruo sentimental. El perrito azul solitario, no es un monstruo de verdad. *[al sur de Viena] **[Anexión de Austria al Reich alemán]

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