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Analysing Salvador Dali's Galatea of spheres, 1952

The artists name is Salvador Dali; the portrait I am intending to analyse is Galatea Of Spheres. Dali has painted many surrealist portraits.
When I look at the portrait of ‘Galatea Of Spheres’, I can see that Dali has used a variety of pale colours and he uses circular shapes, which I think represent spheres and inside the spheres he has drawn the features of a persons face. To me this is a fine use of texture because I think it builds character in a painting. I’ve noticed that throughout his work the positioning of the objects seem to be located in the centre of the portrait. In the portrait, which I have selected and analysing I’ve noticed that he has drawn the lady as if she was indignant inside and behind her looks as if the sun is set. If I was asked what I thought was the most important part of the work, I would have to say that Dali has mainly focused on the face and the spheres in which he has drawn the features. I’m not positive about the exact time of year, bu...

Posted by: Novelett Roberts

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