Thursday, June 24, 2010

My photograph.


My favoryte photograph is called “Living Still Life” and was painting in 1956 is a hand oil painting on canvas by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

The painting was originally known as Nature Morte Vivante and was Dalí's sixth masterwork. Dalí described the work as illustrating "the decomposition of a fruit dish." While the picture can be termed a still life, Dalí incorporates irony by making it evident that nothing in the image is actually still. Even the knife on the table, for example, although not seemingly moving at all is interpreted by the human brain.

I like this photograph because is full of colors, forms, it’s crazy and hard to understand. I’ve seen many Dalí’s pictures but when I saw this one actually I loved it, because is weird and full of mess. It’s true it’s hard to understand but however you can give a lot of meanings and that’s the point that makes this photograph so interesting. The mind infers that no everyday object can simply hover in the air and that gravity must be pulling down on it; therefore, the knife must be in a falling motion.

I saw it for first time in a raining day while I was walking with my girlfriend. We went into a book shop and when I was looking some pictures in a book I discovered it and it was love at first sight. This picture make me feel so special, it brings to me beatyfull memories.

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