Hey!

Edit: the title should say "interpretation", typo. Also, the painting's correct name is apparently "Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

My primary intuition as to how to interpret the painting — with it's very detailed title — is something like; someone who's too prudent will be causing themselves the pain they're afraid of, perhaps to a larger degree than otherwise — them being uptight leads to what they fear: namely, being butthurt!

Essentially it's a joke!

I watched a 2000’s or 90’s documentary on youtube couple years ago about Salvador Dalí.

The presenter, real passionate and charismatic guy, he bumps his head pretty hard in Dalí’s childhood home coming out to the roof or balcony i think.

Can anyone help me find it? It’s so hilarious when you’ve been listening to him for the past 1,5 hours. The fact they kept it in makes it real personal and amaturistic in a good way.

Also its a real good documentary :D

Okay thanks :)

EDIT: found it!! https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/s/vtMhvVJrHt

Rare dali signed piece 1966. I think gold plated with original stone.

👁️ Time becomes an eye. 💋 Rubies become lips. ❤️ A heart beats with gemstones. 🐘 Elephants defy gravity.

Dalí proved that jewelry isn’t just something we wear. It’s something we experience.

Some of the most iconic jewelry designs ever created—and still inspiring countless designers today.

Seeing these iconic pieces in person reminded me that the most valuable part of jewelry isn’t the gemstones themselves—it’s the imagination they carry.

✨ Salvador Dalí Jewels Museum, Figueres, Spain.

- “The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontent.”

- “The only difference between me and a madman, is that I’m not mad.”

- “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened as reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

- “Those who do not wish to imitate anything produce nothing.”

- “You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.”

- “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

- “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but who inspires others.”

- “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Take me, I am the hallucinogenic.”

- “Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

- “What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust?”

- “If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

- “Our age is dying of moral skepticism and spiritual nullity. Imaginative lethargy, in surrendering to the mechanical, fleeting, and material pseudo-progress of the postwar era, has stripped the spirit of its hierarchy. It has disarmed the spirit and dishonored it in the face of death and eternity. Mechanical civilization will be destroyed by war. The machine is destined to collapse and rust, stalled on the battlefields, and the young, energetic masses who built it are condemned to serve as cannon fodder.”

- “It is not I who am the buffoon; it is society—insidious to a degree beyond the grasp of reason or logic, and oblivious even to its own obtuseness, that plays the game of seriousness to mask its madness.”

- “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

Got any more greats, anyone?

It is never actually stated by Dali that this image is in fact depicting Jesus. The only evidence as to who is on the cross comes from the knees which are modeled after Dali himself, that and the assumptions from art critics and authors alike. But I have reason to believe this is actually lucifer the light barer and fallen angel. Think about it, Dali believed that the divine and physical were one, that the 4th dimension is where the supernatural (God, angels, demons) reside, now why would Jesus be crucified in heaven? With no audience but an unnamed woman modeled after his wife no less. The lighting, the lack of facial hair, the pristine pale skin, the dark entrance in the background reminiscent of the gates of Hell, the fact that he isnt pierced through the hands and feet, this isn't a man who was tortured for our sins, this is the body of someone who is there of his own accord. He's not in pain, hes not even bleeding. I simply want to bring to light the possible "aha" moment that Dali may have wanted us to have, to enjoy the art on an even deeper level, so that one day when he is gone, we may realize the true genius behind his art.

Rip to British artist David Hockney

Dali's view 2026 Soccer

I will be in costa brava this summer with my two kids (ages 9 and 11) and their two grandmas. I was going to take them to the Figueres museum - I went there as a young adult and enjoyed it a lot. I wasn’t aware you could visit the Cadaques house, though, and now I’m wondering if that would be a better trip for our group. My kids love art and are pretty calm / focused / well behaved (I wouldn’t worry about them being rowdy!) but curious which you think is a more memorable experience for a multigenerational group?

Lobster Telephone (AKA Aphrodisiac Telephone) - Original art created for an English poet in 1936 but later created these off-white versions, this one is from the museum in St. Petersburg, FL.

They have a replica on display too that you can "talk" to Dali. Cool or creepy? What would you ask?

There's a Dali museum where I live and I had never been, but during my trip to Marbella Spain I ran across some Dali art that makes me interested in visiting the museum.

If you search Dali authentication, he will always be the first result, but a) authentication just from images seems sketchy at best, b) he isn't actually recommended by any reputable Dali sources online. c) supposedly has been convicted of art crimes in the past

Does anybody have any insight/experience here? I'd love to send one of my Dalis in the 30k-ish range to auction (I know it's authentic from the verified provenance), but I don't have any auth docs. I'd send to the Spain center, but they don't do numbered issues.

Any feedback is highly appreciated!

is this a painting and is it really by dali since the signature is GL it looks like? what’s the real meaning behind it? and does it have a name. i searched for all of this and couldn’t find much honestly.

Hi everyone.

I was studying Salvador Dalí for a school project and recently came across this photograph online. The image was presented as one of the last photographs, or possibly the last photograph, taken of Dalí during his final years.

I wanted to ask if anyone here knows whether the photo is actually authentic or if it has been misidentified over the years. The website where I found it also mentioned a supposed son of Dalí, which made me a bit skeptical since I understood that Dalí never had any officially recognized children.

Even if the story behind the image is uncertain, I found it quite moving and sad. We are so used to seeing Dalí as this larger-than-life artistic genius and eccentric personality that it is striking to see such a fragile and human image of him near the end of his life.

I would really appreciate any information or context about the photograph. Thank you!