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Here's quite a lot of info, but no details on the medium. It is referred to as a painting.
Meditative Rose (1958)
Roses appear in many of Dali's works; in the Thirties he made several paintings of women whose heads were formed by roses. Dali uses the rose as a female sexual symbol. The Invisible Man (1929-32) includes two partially naked women with huge roses appearing where their wombs should be. In 1930, Dali used this image again but in a more definitive way, depicting a nude woman with bleeding roses coming from her womb. To Dali then, the rose represented menstruation and the internal reproductive organs of women.

The Rose shares a similar structure with the Portrait of Gala with the Rhinocerotic Symptoms (1954). Both paintings have the familiar intensely blue sky as a backdrop to a dominating central image that hovers over a Spanish landscape. The paintings also share the same vivid red color of the rose, which contrasts so effectively with the blue sky; in Portrait of Gala with the Rhinocerotic Symptoms, the red is used for the border beneath her head. In The Rose, there is a tiny drop of water on one of the petals of the flower, as realistic as a photograph. Dali often used this effect of trompe l'oeil to highlight a small detail of a painting.

2007-03-03 17:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by wordnerd 2 · 0 0

As far as I know it's oils.

2007-03-04 01:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by MissWong 7 · 0 0

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