Salvador Dali

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach Salvador Dali, expresses his paranoiac-critical method in his 1938 work of art, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach.This painting is made with simultaneous meanings. Dali’s images are original and fascinating visionary experiences. He uses a variety of colors and shapes which are abstract yet symbolic. In this particular painting when viewers look they can see, a fruit dish, which turns into a …

…to see it. The line between real and apperances of the real is made clear, but that does not mean that one is better than the other. This painting illustrates Dali’s fascination with double images. Dali fuses a face with a fruit dish, while the body of a dog is simultaneosly a landscape and an arrangement of fruit. Dali’s idea is clear; he wants to free us from single minded vision of reality.