Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Endless Enigma
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS11144
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1938 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Spanish
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
114.5 cm (height) x 146.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; landscape; still life
Description:
The paranoiac-critical method, created by Salvador Dalí, presented the manipulation of conventional images either by breaking up, or by decay, and added an equally important discovery: what are known as "paranoiac" or "double images" which are, in Dalí words, "the representation of an object which, without the least figurative or anatomical modification, is at the same time the representation of another absolutely different object." These ambiguous images are perfectly discernible in paintings like The Invisible Man, 1929-1932, where there are at least six different types of these images, and Endless Enigma (1938). There are a number of precedents for these types of representations in art history, such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s figures. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-SRS-TEI-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Endless Enigma