Dali

Forum Question; “Salvador Dali’s two elephants; what does it mean?”

Best Answer; “it’s a surrealist painting you dill. It doesn’t mean anything.”

Love it.

A better question would have been; “why did Dali paint that particular painting?”

Because that’s what he did for a living.

Noting that this was painted before either of science fiction art or fantasy art took off, I’d say that Dali didn’t see the cliche coming.

His was a visually sophisticated mind. He seemed to excel at pulling together multiple unrelated visual inputs to create strikingly inexplicable and totally meaningless works of art.

Except of course, there was a meaning; to explore and expand the categories of visual images. Art itself was the meaning.