One Surrealist a Day
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Sunday Dalí: Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951. Oil on canvas, 16⅞ x 13 inches. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. Dalí said that this painting was his “interpretation of the creation, destruction, and reintegration of the Universe as conceived by the ‘Eternal Mind’.” He also said, “Surrealism is disintegration. My paintings now show the spirit of reintegration.”1 David Camelon, “Dalí’s ‘exploding angel’,” The American Weekly (1952), 15, quoted in Elliot H. King, Dalí, (Venice: Rizzoli, 2004), 358. ↩

Sunday Dalí: Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951. Oil on canvas, 16⅞ x 13 inches. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Dalí said that this painting was his “interpretation of the creation, destruction, and reintegration of the Universe as conceived by the ‘Eternal Mind’.” He also said, “Surrealism is disintegration. My paintings now show the spirit of reintegration.”1

  1. David Camelon, “Dalí’s ‘exploding angel’,” The American Weekly (1952), 15, quoted in Elliot H. King, Dalí, (Venice: Rizzoli, 2004), 358. ↩

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