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1934 (ca.), Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Instrumente masochiste [Masochistic Instrument] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Inspired by psychoanalysis, Salvador Dalí began making paintings and films about dreams and eroticism in 1929, earning him an invitation to join the Surrealist movement the same year. The sensuous nude torso in Instrumente masochiste [Masochistic Instrument), circa 1934 refers to a time in the artist's youth when he threw a toy out of his window to see the pendulous breast of a naked fruit picker. The flaccid violin at left and the cypress tree impaled by a pole at right are symbols of sexual impotence and castration anxiety. Contributing to the psychological charge of this picture is its unstable composition: structured as a cube, its background plane simultaneously recedes into space and juts out towards the viewer.
1934 (ca.), Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Instrumente masochiste [Masochistic Instrument] -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Inspired by psychoanalysis, Salvador Dalí began making paintings and films about dreams and eroticism in 1929, earning him an invitation to join the Surrealist movement the same year. The sensuous nude torso in Instrumente masochiste [Masochistic Instrument), circa 1934 refers to a time in the artist's youth when he threw a toy out of his window to see the pendulous breast of a naked fruit picker. The flaccid violin at left and the cypress tree impaled by a pole at right are symbols of sexual impotence and castration anxiety. Contributing to the psychological charge of this picture is its unstable composition: structured as a cube, its background plane simultaneously recedes into space and juts out towards the viewer.