Salvador Dali First Day Of Spring Analysis

In Salvador Dali’s painting “The First Day of Spring”, there a number of figures and actions displayed. The painting appears to be taken place on a huge gray plain during the middle of a sunny cloud-less day. In the center, there are three steps that extend all the way back into the background. On the left hand side, there is a man sitting in a chair looking into the background. On the first step, there is a man on his knees resting his head on a woman-like figure in front of a painting. Her head in missing but replaced with and abstract object hat resembles a black hole. Above her head is an array of colors of blue, red, and yellow. On the second step, there is a vase of the same colors with a head of a fish with hair on top. Behind it, is …show more content…
With also noticing the figures are brightly colored and drawn oddly, the human figures are painted into gray scale, they have no color what so ever. By focal point, the emphasis of the painting is supposed to be in the background, but the pop of the bright colors suggests the focal point is possibly the abstract figures. Maybe it is the photograph seeing it is an actually photo versus the painting around it.

“The First Day of Spring” was and oil painting constructed in 1929 by Salvador Dali as his first surrealist piece. Dali had painted pretty much his whole life starting at the early year of his adolescence. Dali’s parents encouraged his artwork by setting up art studios to display his artwork throughout the years until young adulthood. Around 1929, he became fascinated with the psychoanalysis theories of Sigmund Freud and wanted to incorporate them in his artwork, thus he used the art style of surrealism to convey his artwork throughout the 1930’s …show more content…
Along with beautiful hues of vibrant colors, the figures used in his paintings strike mystery. I am always wondering what does this figure represent? Where did he come up with the idea of this or that abstract object? When I had first seen the painting the man sitting in the chair struck wonder. Why was he sitting in a chair by himself facing the background and the only figure without a shadow? I wondered if maybe all of the figures behind him were possibly representations of the man’s most inner and suppressed thoughts. Were they convey through the black and white images and if so what did the abstract images like the hairy fish and the transparent face mean? The bird could possibly mean freedom. Maybe the photo of the child is actually the man and the man walking with the child is possibly hims and his father. So much is behind this photo, I honestly do not think one is able to figure out exactly why Dali chose to represent the meaning of every figure in this painting without asking Dali himself. Dali’s paintings still continue to captivate the world’s interest of mystery even long after his