When you think of a dream, how do you analyze it? Is it just something you do while sleeping and then forget about later? To Salvador Dali dreams were very important and were constantly seen in his artwork. He painted oil paintings that were small collages of his dream images. His work displayed the "unreal dream" space that he showed with strange hallucinatory characters. When looking at the painting that is the subject of this paper, one is already confused by the title, let alone the painting itself. One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate by Salvador Dali in 1944, shows the literal meaning in the title and it conveys the spirit of what’s going on in the scene he’s so skillfully portrayed. Salvador Dali is known for his surrealist paintings and One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate really shows this surrealist movement. Surrealism is meant to shock …show more content…
He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Catalonia, and educated at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Wakening Up was one of the few pictures Dalí painted in the United States, where he lived from 1941 to 1948.” Dali’s main technical intention for Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee was to paint it in a realistic style. He often referred to this work, and other pieces like it, as a “hand-painted dream photograph,” thereby acknowledging the realism of his painting. Using compact brush strokes, Dali accurately portrays the mountainous yet sparse landscape, as well as the detail on the tigers, fish, pomegranate, and other characters within the piece. Perhaps this careful brushwork can best be seen in the crafting of the ultra-realistic water droplets by the woman’s