Salvador Dali, was born in May of 1904. His surrealist ideas led him to creating, his best know work to be striking and bizarre. According to wikipedia, Dali was highly imaginative and also had and affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. This painting is most known for the swans reflecting elephants. However, you can find elephants throughout his line of work. Gian Lorenzo Bernini inspired Dail to paint the elephants. " I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things the inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly." -Salvador Dali, in Dawn Ades, Dali and surrealism.In this painting, I think the swans mean his love of his creativity. The close relationship between the swan and the water, can show his connnection between his dreams and his happiness, and how everything flows like the swan, in nature. The elephants show that hes honored of what he has created. The edge of the water shows the trees replacing the elephant legs and body. The trees may mean death, or extintion of the elephant. I say this becasue the elephants may show the past and how there used to be more there but now there are only swans, because the wateriung hole is to small.
In the rock, he painted himself looking away from the painting, maybe becasue he did not want people taking his painting literally. Wikipedia, states that he did this becasue he was frusterated with the type of audience the surrealist movement was attracting.
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