©Salvador Dalí, Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP & SPDA, 2011 |
The famous Surrealist
painter Salvador Dali distanced himself from Surrealism after World
War II, deepening his interests in the Catholic doctrine and classical
European painting. Dali was also shocked by the dropping of the Atomic
Bomb on Hiroshima, which led him to develop an interest in atomic
physics. This painting is an extremely important work in terms of
furthering our understanding of Dali's post-war development. While
borrowing extensively from traditional Christian iconography, the
overall composition of the work takes the form of a nuclear structure.
Furthermore, the Madonna has been replaced with an image of the artist's
wife. It may be that Dali wished to convey the message that in this
world, dominated by the fear of nuclear weapons, God no longer exists
and that the only thing in which he can place his faith is the source
of his own creativity, his wife Gala. |
