![]() ![]() Dalí paints his fantastical vision in a meticulous and realistic manner: he effortlessly integrates the real and the imaginary in order “to systemize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”. The painting depicts a dreamworld in which common objects are deformed and displayed in a bizarre and irrational way: watches, solid and hard objects appear to be inexplicably limp and melting in the desolate landscape. Frequently referenced in popular culture, the small canvas (24x33 cm) is sometimes known as “Melting Clocks”, “The Soft Watches” and “The Melting Watches”. ![]() Retrieved 29 March 2012.The Persistence of Memory (1931) is one of the most iconic and recognizable paintings of Surrealism. ![]() "El legado de Dalí se divide en dos bloques, con 56 obras para Madrid y 134 a repartir en Cataluña". Ediciones Destino / Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Barcelona / Figueres, 2003, p. A: Obra Completa, Textos Autobiogràfics 2. ^ Dalí, S., Confessions inconfessables.^ "Was Salvador Dalí Plagued By Phantom Bed Bugs?".^ Edward Rubin "The Great Masturbator In Retrospect: Salvador Dalí at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" NY Arts Magazine.^ Ian Gibson, "The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí", W.W.When I painted that rock that I entitled The Great Masturbator, I did nothing more than render homage to one of the promontories of my kingdom, and my painting was a hymn to one of the jewels of my crown. The only place in the world, too, where I feel loved. My mystical paradise begins in the plains of the Empordà, is surrounded by the Alberes hills, and reaches plenitude in the bay of Cadaqués. In that privileged place, reality and the sublime dimension almost come together. The disease was not first published about until 1937, however Dalí described struggling with sensations of bugs crawling on his skin in his autobiography. The inclusion of the grasshopper and ants crawling on the bottom of the stone head may stem from Dalí's experience with delusional parasitosis. The photos of grotesquely damaged diseased genitalia fascinated and horrified young Dalí, and he continued to associate sex with putrefaction and decay into his adulthood. In Dalí's youth, his father had left out a book with explicit photos of people suffering advanced untreated venereal diseases to "educate" the boy. The painting may represent Dalí's severely conflicted attitudes towards sexual intercourse. The section of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights that has drawn comparisons with The Great Masturbator. This part is thought to represent the escape-of-reality idea found in many of Dalí's other works. On the back of the central head figure, a formation of two rocks and a potted dry plant can be seen, the pot of the plant placed over the bottom rock while balancing the other rock on top of it in an unrealistic way. Two of the characters in the landscape are arranged in such a way as to cast a long single shadow, while the other character is seen hurriedly walking into the distance on the peripheries of the canvas. In the landscape below, three other figures are arranged, along with an egg (commonly used as a symbol of fertility) and sparse other features. A swarm of ants (a popular motif representing sexual anxiety in Dalí's work) gather on the grasshopper's abdomen, as well as on the prone face. Below the central profile head, on its mouth, is a grasshopper, an insect Dali referred to several times in his writings. The male figure seen only from the waist down has bleeding fresh cuts on his knees. The woman's mouth is near a thinly clad male crotch, a suggestion that fellatio may take place. A nude female figure (resembling Dalí's then-new muse, Gala) rises from the back of the head this may be the masturbatory fantasy suggested by the title. A similar profile is seen in Dalí's more famous painting of two years later, The Persistence of Memory. The centre of the painting has a distorted human face in profile looking downwards, based on the shape of a natural rock formation at Cap de Creus along the sea-shore of Catalonia. ( March 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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