Swans Reflecting Elephants

Swans Reflecting Elephants

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title=Swans Reflecting Elephants
artist=Salvador Dalí
year=1937
type=Oil on canvas
height=51
width=77
height_inch=20.08
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"Swans Reflecting Elephants" (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. It focuses on a double-image that causes the reflections of swans on a pond to look like elephants; the swans' necks and wings take on the appearance of trunks and ears when reflected, while the reflection of a tree-covered shore behind the swans supplies the elephants' legs and bodies. To the left is a self-portrait of Dalí facing away from the double-image.


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