Swans Reflecting Elephants
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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.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
surrealist painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
double-image technique
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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
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elephants ⓘ lake ⓘ mountains ⓘ swans ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | landscape perspective ⓘ |
| hasVisualEffect |
figure-ground reversal
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optical illusion ⓘ |
| inception | 1937 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Freudian psychoanalysis
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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
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illusion and reality ⓘ metamorphosis ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | paranoiac-critical method ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
mirrored forms
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shape transformation ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Salvador Dalí