height 61 cm
width: 81 cm
artist: Salvador Dali
Glancing at this composition, the spectator sees a desolate beach, or a face, or a dish filled with pears, or a profile of a dog. These images are further fragmented as one continues to look: the dogïs collar becomes a bridge, his head a hill. The instability of appearances fascinated Dal, one of the leading Surrealist artists, who sought to evoke the world of the unconscious by creating multivalent images. The meticulously rendered objects and fragments make the metamorphoses and unexpected juxtapositions of the objects even more startling. (from the homepage of Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut)
