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Swans reflecting elephants - Salvador DalíRating

Swans reflecting elephants Just as the title says, the swans are reflecting elephants in the lake. This is one of the more popular classics by Dalí, especially on calendars and posters.
Number of ratings : 142.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1937 :: Poster Poster
The Image Disappears - Salvador DalíRating

The Image Disappears A somewhat mysterious picture of a bearded man (Dali himself ?) and, on closer sight, a scene with a woman. Dali's moustache is her arm, his eye is her head and his beard is her skirt.
Number of ratings : 97.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1938
Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach - Salvador DalíRating

Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach At the same time a table with a fruit dish, a scene at a beach, a dog (looking to the right), and a face looking towards you ! You may not like the work of Dali, but this is actually an amazing achievement : four different scenes in one painting ! This is also the most requested poster by far.
Number of ratings : 95.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1938 :: Poster Poster
Gala looking into the Mediterranean Sea - Salvador DalíRating

Gala looking into the Mediterranean Sea You already recognize the picture of Abraham Lincoln. In fact it is also a portrait of Dali's wife Gala. The people looking at the painting in the museum have to take several meters of distance to distinguish Lincoln.
Number of ratings : 82.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1977 :: Poster Poster
Soldier Take Warning - Salvador DalíRating

Soldier Take Warning Dali made this painting to warn the soldiers against venereal diseases during the second World War.
Number of ratings : 71.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1942
Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment - Salvador DalíRating

Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment The face of Mae West, which on closer sight appears to be a room. Her eyes are paintings and her hair are curtains on the sides. Her mouth is a couch.
Number of ratings : 65.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1935 :: Poster Poster
Invisible Afghan with the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of Garcia Lorca in the Form of a . . . - Salvador DalíRating

Invisible Afghan with the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of Garcia Lorca in the Form of a . . . The good thing about Dali's horribly long titles is that his paintings hardly need additional description.
Number of ratings : 51.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1938
Ballerina in a Death's-Head - Salvador DalíRating

Ballerina in a Death's-Head Both a ballerina and a skull.
Number of ratings : 42.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1939
Human Skull Consisting of Seven Naked Women's Bodies - Salvador DalíRating

Human Skull Consisting of Seven Naked Women's Bodies Photograph by Philippe Halsman after a drawing by Dalí. Why do you never see this in those Dalí books ?
Number of ratings : 37.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1951 :: Poster Poster
The Great Paranoiac - Salvador DalíRating

The Great Paranoiac The crowds form male faces from a distance.
Number of ratings : 27.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1936
Fifty Abstract Pictures Which ... Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger - Salvador DalíRating

Fifty Abstract Pictures Which ... Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger Full title : "Fifty Abstract Pictures Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen From Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger". This should explain it.
Number of ratings : 26.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1963 :: Poster Poster
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire - Salvador DalíRating

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire Again a hidden bust of Voltaire.
Number of ratings : 25.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1940
Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse - Salvador DalíRating

Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse A scene a the beach in which you can distinguish a face.
Number of ratings : 21.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1941
The Skull of Zurbarán - Salvador DalíRating

The Skull of Zurbarán The village forms a skull.
Number of ratings : 20.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1956
Paranoiac Visage - The Postcard Transformed - Salvador DalíRating

Paranoiac Visage - The Postcard Transformed The rocks and bushes look like a face.
Number of ratings : 19.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1935
Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The Three Ages) - Salvador DalíRating

Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The Three Ages) The landscape reveals three busts of men in different stages of their life : old man, adult, baby. You can see the town of Port Lligat through the arches of the ruins of Ampurias.
Number of ratings : 15.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1940
Invisible bust of Voltaire - Salvador DalíRating

Invisible bust of Voltaire You can see the bust of Voltaire as created by the French sculptor Houdon. Dalí forms the bust by the arrangement of two 17th century Dutch merchants in a marketplace. The bust's outline is the opening in the wall behind the merchants. Their faces form the bust's eyes, and their collars make his nose and cheeks.
Number of ratings : 15.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1941
Transformation of 'Antiques' Magazine Cover into the Apparition of a Face - Salvador DalíRating

Transformation of 'Antiques' Magazine Cover into the Apparition of a Face Did you see the face appearing in the hallway ? Look at the branches of the tree.
Number of ratings : 24.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1974
Cover of 'Match' magazine - Salvador DalíRating

Cover of 'Match' magazine Apparition of a War Scene on the Face of Lieutenant Deschanel. Cover of 'Match' magazine.
Number of ratings : 13.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1939
Metamorphosis of a Man's Bust into a Scene Inspired by Vermeer - Salvador DalíRating

Metamorphosis of a Man's Bust into a Scene Inspired by Vermeer
Number of ratings : 11.
Rate Rate :: Year : 1939
 
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