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Summary Of Apparition Of Face And Fruit Dish By Salvador Dali
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

Salvador Dali

In Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish I see a beach, a dog, a hillside, a pears inside of a chalice that looks like a face. It also looks like the beach is in the sky and there is a war going on, on the right side of the painting. The serialist painting is made out a oil paint. It has a lot of recognisable objects and some objects you can’t tell what it is. The painting is horizontal, a little passed being a square. A lot of the different objects are the same thing. The colors of the painting are different shades and tints of white, brown and a little blue. Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish was made in 1938.
Salvador Dali used oil paint to paint Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish.


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