This painting is titled Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937. It is oil paint on canvas measuring 51.2cm x 78.1cm made by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989). This Metamorphosis of Narcissus’ genre is a figure within a landscape. This picture is an open composition. What is surrealism? Surrealism is an artistic movement that started in 1924 when the Surrealist Manifesto was published. A French poet named Andre Breton (1924 through World War 2) led surrealism. Surrealism started in Paris and then spread internationally. Salvador Dali Quoted “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” There are three picture planes in this picture the foreground, the middleground, and the background.
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Another object in the foreground is the lake, which is a warm dark orangish and dark yellowish color. I feel that Salvador Dali chose to make the lake orangish- yellowish so that it looks as if the bright yellow body is reflecting on the lake. Even though this lake is in the foreground it expands further into the middle ground. A part of the light gray- blue hand is also in the left side of the foreground. The tree and the lake in the extreme left and the clouds and mountains in the extreme right are cropped. The light source is in the left side of the painting. You can see this because of the shadows on the red earth. Salvador Dali has not used space in this painting because there are so many objects in this painting so there is nowhere to include blank space. I think that the fact that there isn’t a lot of space because there are many objects makes the viewer more interested in the picture because there are lots of objects to look at. The focal point in this photo is not located in the foreground. Since there is only a little space in this painting it makes some figures advance. I think that this is a clever technique, which can be very helpful sometimes, that artists use to make objects in paintings look 3D. Salvador Dali doesn’t use the technique, which makes multiple objects come together to create 1 image in the foreground part of this
Another object in the foreground is the lake, which is a warm dark orangish and dark yellowish color. I feel that Salvador Dali chose to make the lake orangish- yellowish so that it looks as if the bright yellow body is reflecting on the lake. Even though this lake is in the foreground it expands further into the middle ground. A part of the light gray- blue hand is also in the left side of the foreground. The tree and the lake in the extreme left and the clouds and mountains in the extreme right are cropped. The light source is in the left side of the painting. You can see this because of the shadows on the red earth. Salvador Dali has not used space in this painting because there are so many objects in this painting so there is nowhere to include blank space. I think that the fact that there isn’t a lot of space because there are many objects makes the viewer more interested in the picture because there are lots of objects to look at. The focal point in this photo is not located in the foreground. Since there is only a little space in this painting it makes some figures advance. I think that this is a clever technique, which can be very helpful sometimes, that artists use to make objects in paintings look 3D. Salvador Dali doesn’t use the technique, which makes multiple objects come together to create 1 image in the foreground part of this