is an outstanding example of the personalization of story and image. Only through his paintings could anyone even begin to understand what was going in the wild and characteristically urgent eyes of what many believed to be a madman. But in his madness, Dali formulated a very specific and representative roster of characters and images to play out the humanity of what were formerly pius icons. Much like his depiction of the crucifiction and the last supper, Dali signatured perspective in a time where any artists saught refuge in replication.In this painting, the spectator finds themselves in one of Dali's unmistakeable dreamlike landscapes, witnessing distilled conflict in the folds of elegant distortion and metaphor. Elephants with spider legs, gold shrine build in tribute to the female form, the ominus horizon; given time to work through his entire collection, one would find these and similar elements in all of his work because that is what characterized and made personal his artistic struggle. The figure to the far left plays out an entire scene in one image, rejecting through the aid of faith this horrifying beauty, this grim divine. In something as universal as temptation, Dali found himself and presented a form that none could replicate or would even think to before his time.
Salvidor Dali revolutionized art. Not by taking what was and making it better, but by taking what was his and making it everyone's. He had no face to save as one glance could convince you that he was certifyable. He had no loves except his his art and the world it inhabited and he made true that art remain art for art's sake. What remains of him is the art, a product of divine providence.
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