Dali’s cryptic painting is based on a picture executed by Millet. The famous surrealist transformed the idyllic landscape into a scene of horror, filling it with macabre eroticism.

Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), Atavisms of Twilight (Compulisive Idea) 1933

OCT 4, 20153 MIN
Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), Atavisms of Twilight (Compulisive Idea) 1933

OCT 4, 20153 MIN

Description

Dali’s cryptic painting is based on a picture executed by Millet. The famous surrealist transformed the idyllic landscape into a scene of horror, filling it with macabre eroticism.