According to Painting Analysis and Interpretations, Swans Reflecting Elephants is one of Salvador Dali's classic masterpeices that made his double sided paintings a collectors item. This is an oil painting that Dali made in 1937. In this painting there are three swans in a pond and their reflections are elephants. The neck of the swan is the trunk and head of the elephant. The rest of the elephant is made up from the trees and brush on the bank behind the swans. I think that resmbles the creativity behind Salvador Dali's work. Everything in this painting is flowy, it's so relaxing and just makes you think. On the left you can see a man facing toward the outside of the painting, as I read on Wikipedia, Dali put himself in there to show his frustration with the type of audiance the surrealist movement was attracting. He tried making illusions with his paintings and succeeded greatly. His weirdness and corkiness stands out. I think Salvador Dali portrays the Artist archetype because he expresses things in his artwork that the normal human would not have thought of. His paintings make it possible for you to see the hallucinatory form of art. I wonder what he was thinking when he was painting this peice and I also want to know what made his mind think up something so bizzaire?
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