Swans Reflecting Elephants

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painting surrealist painting

Swans Reflecting Elephants is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that uses a double-image illusion to transform swans and their reflections into elephants.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Swans Reflecting Elephants canonical	4

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	painting ⓘ surrealist painting ⓘ
artStyle	double-image technique ⓘ illusionism ⓘ
background	rocky cliffs ⓘ
colorPalette	blues ⓘ earth tones ⓘ
copyrightStatus	copyrighted ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Spain ⓘ
creator	Salvador Dalí ⓘ
depicts	double image illusion ⓘ landscape ⓘ reflection in water ⓘ
describedAs	iconic surrealist image ⓘ
foreground	lake with swans ⓘ
genre	Surrealism ⓘ
hasPart	clouds ⓘ elephants ⓘ lake ⓘ mountains ⓘ swans ⓘ trees ⓘ
hasPerspective	landscape perspective ⓘ
hasVisualEffect	figure-ground reversal ⓘ optical illusion ⓘ
inception	1937 ⓘ
influencedBy	Freudian psychoanalysis ⓘ dream imagery ⓘ
languageOfWork	none ⓘ
location	private collection ⓘ
mainSubject	elephants ⓘ swans ⓘ
medium	oil paint ⓘ
movement	Surrealism ⓘ
notableWorkOf	Salvador Dalí ⓘ
partOfSeries	Dalí double-image paintings ⓘ
periodInArtistCareer	Dalí’s late 1930s period ⓘ
support	canvas ⓘ
theme	ambiguity of perception ⓘ illusion and reality ⓘ metamorphosis ⓘ
usesTechnique	paranoiac-critical method ⓘ
visualMotif	mirrored forms ⓘ shape transformation ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Swans Reflecting Elephants
Description of subject: Swans Reflecting Elephants is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that uses a double-image illusion to transform swans and their reflections into elephants.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Salvador Dalí → notableWork → Swans Reflecting Elephants ⓘ

paranoiac-critical method → notableExampleIn → Swans Reflecting Elephants ⓘ

Salvador → notableWork → Swans Reflecting Elephants ⓘ

subject surface form: Salvador Dalí

Dalí double-image paintings → notableWork → Swans Reflecting Elephants ⓘ