The Elephants
Dalí's spindly-legged elephants carrying obelisks create impossible architecture that defies gravity. The work explores strength and fragility, weightlessness and burden, reality and illusion. The dream imagery combines classical symbols with surreal distortion. Dalí examines power, spirituality, and the unconscious through symbolic juxtaposition. The painting demonstrates technical mastery merged with imaginative vision.
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