Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

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Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach is a 1938 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that exemplifies his use of double images to fuse a human face, a fruit dish, and a beach landscape into a single ambiguous scene.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
associatedWith paranoiac-critical theory of Salvador Dalí
countryOfOrigin Spain
creator Salvador Dalí NERFINISHED
creatorNationality Spanish
depicts beach landscape
fruit dish
human face
landscape
profile of a face
still life
genre Surrealism NERFINISHED
hasArtForm easel painting
hasArtisticStyle ambiguous imagery
paranoiac-critical method
hasColorPalette earth tones
muted blues
hasMedium oil paint
hasSetting deserted beach
seaside
hasSupport canvas
hasTheme ambiguity of visual reality
perception and illusion
hasTitle Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach NERFINISHED
inception 1938
influencedBy Freudian psychoanalysis
Surrealist exploration of the unconscious
languageOfTitle English
mainSubject optical illusion of face and still life
visual ambiguity
movement Surrealism
notableFor complex double imagery
fusion of portrait, still life, and landscape
illusionistic composition
partOf Salvador Dalí oeuvre NERFINISHED
period late 1930s works of Salvador Dalí
usesTechnique double image
optical illusion

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Dalí double-image paintings notableWork Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach