"The 50 Paintings" Project

Painting # 38

"Girl at the window" by Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali , a Spanish Painter, sculptor, writer film maker, performer painted this canvas of his sister Anna Maria looking out of the window of their family home in Cadaques Spain. 

Dali is the most prolific artist of the 20th century and a famous surrealist painter. 

Surrealism was a movement which began around 1920 wherein artists painted scenes which seemed like from a dream, sometimes seeming illogical, but painted with a photographic precision nonetheless...  The scenes as though allowed  the unconscious to express itself.

'Girl at the Window' is presently housed in Museum in Spain  , 

however is not as famous as his work "The Persistance of Memory " showing melting clocks - kind of resonating with Einstien's theory that time is not rigid but relative...

If you go to the Museum of Modern Art in New York you can view this painting there donated by an anonymous donor :)

This is a painting which may not appeal to the eye of everyone but is certainly the subject matter of discussion in all art courses and probably is one of his most recognizable  works.