Flight of a Bee
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| Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening |
| Salvador Dali, 1944 |
| oil on canvas |
| 51 × 40.5 cm |
| Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
| 64 worlds greatest paintings |
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí.
According to Dalí, "The noise of the bee here causes the sting of the dart that will wake Gala." The action of the painting — the larger pomegranate from which comes a fish releasing two tigers behind a bayonet — represents the woman's abrupt awakening from her otherwise peaceful dream. This is an example of Sigmund Freud's influence on surrealist art and Dali's attempts to explore the world of dreams.
It has also been suggested that the painting is "a surrealist interpretation of the Theory of Evolution" [1]
The Californian art rock band dredg made reference to the painting on their 2002 album El Cielo.
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