Vista De Cadaques Con La Sombra Monte Parni

So this is the second time I have visited the Dali Museum and to be honest it was much better. The first time I visited they had run out of headphone for audio so I was walking around not knowing what I was really seeing. That is why you definitely need the audio when you visit because I actually learned so many interesting things. So the first painting that caught my eye was the is “Vista De Cadaques Con La Sombra Del Monte Parni” or “View Of Cadaques In the shadow of Mount Parni”. So this painting is oil on canvas, made in 1917 of a place that Dali and his family adored. Cadaques is small mediterranean fishing village in spain. Dali and his family would spend summers at Cadaques where Dali eventually began painting. Dali even had his Dali museum-house made in Cadaques.
This painting of oil on canvas is a portrayal of Salvador Dali’s older brother Salvador. The audio said that when his brother died at a young age Salvador went through an identity crisis and wondered who the real Salvador Dali was. His parents treated him as if he was the reincarnate of his brother and in the end this confused him into not really knowing who he was as a person. Dali said, “Every day, I kill the image of my poor brother. . . I assassinate him regularly, for the ‘Divine Dali’ cannot have anything in common with this former terrestrial being.” So the portrait is actually referred to as a combined portrait. The are cherries falling from heaven, some of which are dark in color representing his brother and some are lighter which represent Dali himself. His whole point of making the painting was to make the two of theme into one. That can be seen when you see the two cherries one light and one dark connected by a