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This is a museum art print of ‘Swans Reflecting Elephants’ 1937 by the Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dali. The print is of an original oil on canvas painting.nbspSalvador Dali uses the reflection in the lake to create one of his famous double images. You can see relfec ted in the lake three swans in front of bleak, lifeless trees. The swans’ heads become the elephant’s heads and the trees become the bodies of the elephants in this fascinating double image. In the background there is a Catalonian landscape, common to Dali’s paintings.The double image relects Dali’s fascination with paradoxical pairings in this case the delicacy of the swans, associated with beauty, is contrasted with the nbspdensity of the elephants, associated with wisdom. nbspDali created this ‘Paranoic Critical Method’ in the early 1930’s.Click these words to find similar printsSurrealism Landscape Animal Prints under £150Art Prints for Frames
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