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Salvador Dali - Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening Analysis
SALVADOR DALÍ
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening

Painted in the year 1944
Oil on Canvas
51 cm × 40.5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Personal Framework
Salvador Dalí was born May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was a writer, filmmaker and painter. From a young age, he was encouraged to paint, despite the weak relationship between him and his father due to domestic violence caused by his own fits. At 16, his mother passed away from Breast Cancer, and his father married Dalí’s aunt. Salvador Dalí went to the art school Academia de San Fernando in Spain, and rather than taking it seriously, he dressed oddly and preferred to daydream during classes. He was expelled. The rise of Franco in Spain led to Dalí 's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that did not prevent him from painting. He later married Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova, or simply known as Gala, which became his muse and inspiration.
When Dalí was still in school, he studied many artist movements in which one was Dada, a post-World War I anti-establishment cultural movement. Although apolitical, it philosophically influenced his paintings. He also travelled to Paris, France and met up with Pablo Picasso, whom he highly respected. He also met Joan Miro, Paul Eluard and Rene Magritte, who introduced Dalí to Surrealism. Dalí 's paintings became associated with three general themes: depicting a measure of man 's universe and his sensations, the use of collage; and objects charged with sexual symbolism, and ideographic imagery. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening, or Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee for short, shows quite a few of his themes, including sexual symbolism depicted by Gala Dalí his wife, his idea of the degree of universe in a dream and also collages of images from his dream.
André Breton, whose manifesto the Surrealist movement was based off, first formed surrealist art:
“Pure



References: BIO. 2013. Salvador Dalí Biography. [online] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal%C3%AD-40389 [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013]. Learner.org. 2013. Art Through Time: A Global View - Dream, Caused by the Flight of a Bee (Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up). [online] Available at: http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/59/index.html [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013]. Studymode.com. 2013. Art Analysis Salvador Dahli - Essay. [online] Available at: http://www.studymode.com/essays/Art-Analysis-Salvador-Dahli-194785.html [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013]. wikipedia.org. 2013. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. [online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Caused_by_the_Flight_of_a_Bee_Around_a_Pomegranate_a_Second_Before_Awakening [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013].

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