Dali once said “Surrealism is destructive but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision” (Salvador Dali). Dali freed his mind of the shackles that are reality, giving him the ability to create his wacky paintings such as The Elephants. His works inspired many painters to join the surrealism movement, one of his more notable pieces being these elephants. Created in 1948, Dali’s painting pictures two elephants walking through the desert carrying two large figures…
Salvador Dali was an artist born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali after his father and brother, who died 9 months before Dali's own birth due to meningitis. Dali lived in the shadow of his brother all of his life. This had a great impact on his artwork. A lot of his works were an expression of how he felt towards his brother. These works included deterioration, degeneration, and other disturbing images. Dali began painting at the age of 10 and some of his more…
Structural Family Therapy Christine Miller Brandman University Structural Family Therapy The foundation of structural family therapy rests upon the belief that the solution to a family’s presenting problem can be found by identifying and changing ineffective patterns in the structure or organization. A family is organized into different subsystems, including couple, parental, parent-child, or sibling subsystems. When a family enters therapy, the therapist actively seeks out…
The left-wing nationalist movements in many Latin American countries had certain factors that held enormous political and social importance. One of the most significant and common factor of these movements was the issue of equal access of resources by the common people. This issue was also a major reason for high rates of inequality in Latin American countries like Cuba and Chile. Around 1950’s, factors like poverty and lack of basic needs posed some serious challenges to the development of Cuba…
and presenting problem. One size does not fit all when it comes to therapy. This is why there are a variety of theoretical models to choose from when assessing how to best help a client. Structural family therapy is a model of therapy created by Salvador Minuchin which provides “a clear framework for understanding and treating families” by looking at a family’s structure and their patterns of interaction (Nichols, 1999, p. 140). The structural perspective will be useful in helping Joy an amiable…
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…
A structural approach to family therapy involves looking at the pattern of family dynamics focused on the components that make up the family. These are the structure, the subsystems, and the boundaries within that family (Nichols, 2013). A family is always dynamic, always growing and changing, and interactions mark the ways in which a family deals with these changes. Problems in families can generally be traced back to problems in the hierarchal structure within families, according to this view.…
Living Still Life, painted by Salvador Dali in 1956, is an oil on canvas painting created to express the dynamic combination and complexity of stillness and motion that goes almost unnoticed every day. Viewers are drawn in to observe the masterpiece initially by the bright red, mellow blue, and vibrant red colors used in the scenic view painted before them. In essence, the painting is of a medium length rectangular, wooden table partially extending from a room inside of an apartment or condo,…
Is perfection an imaginary ideal, or does it really exist? In many cases, perfection is perceptive; it depends on how one discerns the idea of it. Some may argue that perfection is nonexistent, all things will eventually fall short of its goals, and that nothing is without flaws. On the contrary, some may argue that perfection is a scarce form of existence that only few entities attain. In the case of Chile, perfection existed in one of the most unexpected forms; Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.…
St John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí, 1951. Oil on canvas, 205 cm × 116 cm (80.7 × 45.67") Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland and Christ on the Cross by Diego Velazquez, 1631. Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm. Museo del Pardo. Madrid, Spain. Though similar in nature the two pieces have many different aspects and elements that makes both works of art stand out. There are many characteristics to both pieces of work. Christ of St. John of the Cross by Salvador Dali is one of the most…