what does this picture mean?? I read that it symbolizes his eyes.... I thought over and over the picture... What does this picture mean?????????????????????help please thank you!!!
2007-11-14 13:08:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Dalí probably painted Still Life: Fish with Red Bowl during his brief suspension from Madrid's Academy of Fine Arts for supposedly inciting a student riot. It's an academic study revealing Dali's eye for genre detail and a growing concern with compostition. The colors in Fish with Red Bowl are somewhat muted, and cool blues predominate. With his careful placement of the bowl and the fish, Dali creates a very pleasing composition. Our eyes move around the composition in a circular pattern, and the fish are placed on diagonals in opposing directions to keep the arrangement from becoming too static.
2007-11-14 15:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by suzb49 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it is just a painting. No special meaning to it at all. At that time he did more of these still lives that were just good paintings without the "surrealist meaning" of his later work.
Besides, many of his surrealist work only has 'meaning' because people say it has. Dali always insisted he painted pretty pictures and could not care less about the meaning (or at least what people thought about the meaning). He never explained them.
In that light you could argue that whatever meaning it has for you is valid as a true meaning for that painting.
2007-11-15 03:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole point of surrealism was to put art and art critiques and historians on their ear....
Surrealism was a celebration of the subconscious......
2007-11-15 16:25:19 · answer #3 · answered by penydred 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋