Salvador was given a dream caused by the flight of a bee. A dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening. Symbols of the painting “Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before waking up”

“A dream caused by the flight of a bee...” from the point of view of psychoanalysis

“They seem to consider me their patron saint,” Freud chuckled at the surrealists, whom he called idiots. Dali read the books of the father of psychoanalysis and repeatedly tried to reproduce in paintings the images generated in a dream by the unconscious

The artist had a special method - he slept at work. If you believe Dali's stories, he was dozing at an easel, holding a key, a brush or a spoon in his hand. When an object fell out and hit a plate that had been placed on the floor in advance, the roar woke up the artist. And he immediately got to work, until the state between sleep and reality disappeared. In the painting “Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening,” the sound that is about to interrupt the heroine’s sleep at the same time creates its plot, evoking a number of associative images in the sleeper.
Dali painted the painting in the USA, where he and his wife Gala went for several years away from the fascist threat (today the canvas is kept in Madrid in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum). 18 years later, he said about the picture: “The goal was to depict for the first time the type of long, connected sleep discovered by Freud, caused by an instantaneous impact, from which awakening occurs.” A psychoanalyst would say that the heroine of the picture is seeing a classic Freudian dream - about the confrontation between the masculine and feminine principles, suppressed sexual desire and at the same time fear of it. It is clear that the artist persistently pushes the viewer to this conclusion.
Dali tried several times to meet Freud, but succeeded only once, in 1938, a year before the scientist’s death. Both were not very happy with each other.

1 Woman. This is Gala, whom the artist considered his inspiration and second self. She sees the dream depicted in the picture and is on the border of two worlds - real and illusory, simultaneously being present in both.

2 Flight. The sleeping woman does not lie on the rock, but hovers above it, which, from the point of view of classical psychoanalysis, speaks of suppressed desire. “Thanks to Freud, we know the erotic meaning of everything connected with flying,” wrote Dali.

3 Bee. The insect and the fruit are part of the real world; The buzzing of a bee is the root cause of both sleep and awakening.

4 Garnet. In ancient and Christian symbolism, this image means rebirth and fertility. “All life-giving biology arises from a bursting pomegranate,” the artist himself commented on the painting.

5 A gun with a bayonet. Transformation of the image of a bee sting, as well as the threat of awakening and destruction of sleep. According to Freud, it is a symbol of male genitalia. “In girls’ nightmares, the pursuit of a man with a knife or firearm plays a big role,” the creator of psychoanalysis noted in his lectures.

6 Tigers. Striped, snarling predators are a reflection in the world of dreams of the buzzing and coloring of a bee. An image inspired by Dali's circus poster.

7 Fish. Her scaly body is perhaps a reflection in the dream world of the bee's compound eyes from the real world.

8 Elephant. “Bernini’s elephant in the background carries an obelisk and attributes of the pope,” the artist was hinting at a dream about the funeral of the Pope, which Freud had because of the ringing of bells and was cited by a psychiatrist as an example of a bizarre connection between the plot and an external stimulus. The elephant from Piazza Minerva in Rome, created by the Baroque master Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini as a pedestal for an ancient Egyptian obelisk, was later depicted more than once by Dali in paintings and sculpture. Thin jointed legs are a symbol of the fragility and unreality inherent in sleep.

9 Obelisk. The stone on the back of an elephant is a sign of dominance, a pronounced symbol of masculinity.

10 Moon. This is a symbol of the feminine principle, as well as an attribute of the night - the time of dreams.

11 Sea. In Dali's work it means eternity. Freud compared the human psyche to an iceberg, nine-tenths submerged in the sea of ​​the unconscious. According to historian and art critic Nathaniel Harris, this is exactly what is depicted in the painting.

1904 - Born in Figueres (Catalonia, Spain) in the family of a notary, his name was given in honor of his brother who died before his birth.
1922–1925 - Studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Madrid.
1929 - Joined the surrealists. I met the woman of my life - Gala (Elena Dyakonova). He painted the painting “The Great Masturbator”.
1931 - Created The Persistence of Memory.
1934 - Registered a relationship with Gala in France.
1940–1948 - Lived in the USA.
1944 - Created "The Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Awakening."
1947–1949 - Worked on Atomic Leda.
1969 - Invented the logo for the Chupa Chups company.
1989 - Died of heart failure complicated by pneumonia, buried in Figueres at the Dalí Theater and Museum.

based on materials from Semyon Martynov

Watched - Sergei Tynku

I dreamed of my favorite painting by Salvador Dali, “The Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Awakening.” I have never seen it in person, and I don’t even know where it is - in a distant museum or in the hands of some rich connoisseur. All I got was a file on a computer screen, and prints - a couple in books and one on a sheet of A2 paper. But this does not prevent me from loving her, just as many people love God, even without ever seeing him. They really hope to see him, to meet him someday. Well, it seems so to me. But I don’t really hope to ever see her. And I don’t understand whether I need this. It is enough to know that she was there, remember her mood and sometimes glance at her image somewhere.

When I saw her in a dream, she was alive and three-dimensional. But not like holography or images in a movie theater with special glasses. Her three-dimensionality was different. I could walk around it from all sides. And she was not frozen, she stirred and moved, breathed and swayed. I saw how the hairs shook on the shiny skin of tigers, and how the rifle shook as it swung on the bayonet. I was very hot, sweat flowed through me like streams from these terrible mountains in the Caucasus. And I flew down from the sky onto the backs of tigers, I flew quickly, the wind ran pleasantly over my skin. And the whole body froze in anticipation of falling into clean, fresh water, which would give lightness and coolness. There in the dream, I was just a little away from bliss, it was as if you had already brought a piece of snow-white melon to your mouth, with a honey sunburst on the inner edge cleared of seeds.

It was incredibly interesting whether I would have time to fall before the naked woman woke up, causing her to shudder and open her eyes from the splashes that fell on her from my unity with the surface of the sea, or whether she would manage to wake up a little earlier, noticing how the top of my head would disappear under the water. Will she understand in this case that she has already woken up, and this is not a dream, but a new strange reality. Will she talk to me after I surface and shake off the moisture from my eyelids? And in what language? Will we understand each other? She is the person from the picture about the dream, who lives inside my dream. Will these universes of closed eyes intersect, and will Salvador Dali with his incredible mustache, leaning on a crutch, laugh from somewhere under the heavens?

It has long been recognized that time is a relative quantity. It can drag on forever, or, conversely, fly by in a second, like a Japanese high-speed train passing a platform in the suburbs of Tokyo. So in this flight inside a three-dimensional painting, in literally a split second you have time to think about so many different things, ask yourself a million questions, feel the upcoming pleasure of swimming and the delight of seeing a masterpiece of painting live with the most incredible details and details, marveling the beauty of a fragile moment that will irreversibly change before you have time to exhale the air you have collected in your lungs - the lightest and most pleasant air, which seems to have the taste of the purest mineral water in the world after a hangover.

Tigers will fly by and disappear somewhere in the distance beyond the horizons as striped dots, so small that for a second you will mistake them for bees. The woman will smile and sit down, straightening her hair. The elephant will blow its trumpet from under the heavens like ten Titanics, and then, stretching out its trunk, will drag the pomegranate somewhere to itself. The goldfish will disappear into the depths, and a guitar will slowly swim from a distant cliff, swaying on the cherry-colored waves. Salty drops of sea water will flow down its strings, and it will seem that these are tears, looking at which George, sitting on an elephant crossing the sea from that very India, will write his immortal “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” literally a second before, how to fall into your dream, as colorful as oriental patterns. Everything will continue to move and change. And our dreams will always be with us. And after us.

Oil/Canvas (1944)

Description

She is undoubtedly another portrait of Gala, shown floating above (rather than resting on) a stone slab, which is washed by the sea of ​​the unconscious. The real bee and pomegranate pale before the images they generate - a huge pomegranate fruit, a fish bursting out of it and two tigers in all their snarling ferocity, which the fish spews from its mouth. More traditional Freudian images - a rifle...

One of the painting's sources was a poster of circus tigers, and Dali retains much of the vibrant spontaneity associated with poster art. The bee and pomegranate appearing in the title are depicted small, directly under the body of the woman stretched out in a dream.

She is undoubtedly another portrait of Gala, shown floating above (rather than resting on) a stone slab, which is washed by the sea of ​​the unconscious. The real bee and pomegranate pale before the images they generate - a huge pomegranate fruit, a fish bursting out of it and two tigers in all their snarling ferocity, which the fish spews from its mouth. More traditional Freudian images - a rifle with a fixed bayonet and a fantastic elephant on stilt legs - complete this momentary dream, which clearly has not yet had time to disturb the sleeper's peace.

Salvador Dali wrote about his painting:
The goal was to depict for the first time the type of long coherent sleep discovered by Freud, caused by an instantaneous impact, from which awakening occurs. Just as the fall of a needle on the neck of a sleeper simultaneously causes his awakening and a long sleep ending in a guillotine, the buzzing of a bee here causes a sting that will awaken Gala. All life-giving biology arises from the bursting of a pomegranate. Bernini's elephant in the background bears an obelisk and attributes of the pope

Located in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí was born in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. His talent for painting manifested itself at an early age. Already at the age of 4, he diligently tried to draw. His behavior was always marked by uncontrollable energy, frequent whims and hysterics.

Salvador Dali painted his first painting on a wooden board with oil paints when he was 10 years old. Dali sat all day long in a small room specially allocated to him, drawing pictures.

He received his first lessons in craftsmanship from Professor Joan Nunez, under whose guidance Dali’s talent took on real forms.

At the age of fifteen, Dali was expelled from the monastic school “for obscene behavior,” but was able to successfully pass the exams and enter the institute (as in Spain they called a school providing a completed secondary education).

From the age of 16, Dali began to express his thoughts on paper, and from that time literary creativity also became an integral part of his creative life.

In the early 20s, Dali became interested in the works of the futurists. The extravagant appearance of Dali himself amazed and shocked those around him.

He managed to graduate from the institute in 1921 with excellent grades. He then entered the Art Academy in Madrid.

In 1923, for violating discipline, he was suspended from the academy for a year. During this period, Dali's interest was focused on the work of Pablo Picasso.

In 1925, the first solo exhibition of Dali's works was organized at the Dalmau Gallery. This exhibition featured 27 paintings and 5 drawings by the emerging great genius.

The school of painting in which he studied gradually disillusioned him, and in 1926 Dali was expelled from the academy for his freethinking. In the same 1926, Salvador Dali went to Paris in search of something he liked. Having joined Andre Breton's group, he began to create his first surrealist works.

At the beginning of 1929, the premiere of the film “Un Chien Andalou” took place, based on the script by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. They wrote the script in just six days! In 1930, Salvador Dali's paintings began to bring him fame. The constant themes of his creations were destruction, decay, death, as well as the world of human sexual experiences (the influence of the books of Sigmund Freud).

In the early 30s, Salvador Dali entered into a political conflict with the surrealists. His admiration for Adolf Hitler and his monarchical inclinations ran counter to Breton's ideas. Dali broke with the surrealists after they accused him of counter-revolutionary activities.

In January 1931, the second film based on Dali’s script, “The Golden Age,” premiered in London.

In 1934, Dali married Elena Dyakonova, the former wife of the writer Paul Eluard. It was this woman (Gala) who became the muse and inspiration of the genius Dali for the rest of his life. The amazing thing about the Dali couple was that they felt and understood each other. Gala lived the life of Dali, and he, in turn, deified her and admired her.

In 1940, after the occupation in France, Dali left for the USA (California), where he opened a new workshop. It was there that the great genius wrote one of his best books, “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, Written by Himself.”

In 1951, on the eve of the Cold War, Dali developed the theory of “atomic art,” published that same year in the Mystical Manifesto. Dali's goal is to convey to the viewer the idea of ​​the constancy of spiritual existence even after the disappearance of matter. This idea was embodied in his painting “The Exploding Head of Raphael.” In 1953, a large exhibition of retrospective works of Salvador Dali was held in Rome. It featured 24 paintings, 27 drawings, 102 watercolors!

In 1959, Dali and Gala finally set up their home in Port Lligat. By that time, no one could doubt the genius of the great artist. His paintings were bought for huge sums of money by fans and lovers of luxury. The huge canvases painted by Dali in the 60s were valued at huge sums. Many millionaires considered it chic to have paintings by Salvador Dali in their collection.

At the end of the 60s, the relationship between Dali and Gala began to fade. And at Gala’s request, Dali was forced to buy her a castle, where she spent time, preferably in the company of young people.

In 1973, the Dali Museum opened in Figueres. This incomparable surreal creation still delights visitors to this day. The museum is a retrospective of the life of the great artist.

Closer to the 80s, Dali began to have health problems. Doctors suspected Dali had Parkinson's disease. This disease once became fatal for his father.

Gala died on June 10, 1982. Although their relationship by this time could not be called close, Dali perceived her death as a terrible blow.

By the end of 1983 his mood had improved slightly. He began to sometimes walk in the garden and began to paint pictures. But old age took precedence over a brilliant mind.

On August 30, 1984, a fire occurred in Dali's house, as a result of which Dali received burns to 18% of his skin.

By February 1985, Dali’s health had improved somewhat and he was able to give an interview to the largest Spanish newspaper.

But in November 1988, Dali was admitted to the clinic with a diagnosis of heart failure.

Salvador Dali's heart stopped on January 23, 1989. The body was embalmed at his request, and for a week he lay in his museum in Figueres. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to the great genius.

Salvador Dali was buried in the center of his museum under an unmarked slab.

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