Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (Salvador Dali, Surrealism)

Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach

The title Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach refers to three of the simultaneous images in the 1938 painting, though a careful study of the composition reveals a fourth image of a brown and white dog. Dali's double image paintings were wildly popular with the American public.

His 'paranoic-critical method,' a creative process of interpreting unconscious thoughts and feelings, into increasingly elaborate visual illusions called 'double images.' These double images are actually individual compositions depicting commonplace objects and surroundings from which multiple images emerge.

Back to the Artist Salvador Dali

Dali's Other Works

The Persistence of Memory

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Bacchanale

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Sleep