Sunday Dalí: Ruin with Head of Medusa and Landscape (dedicated to Mrs. Chase), 1941. Oil on canvas, 36 x 25.4 cm.
Sunday Dalí: Geological Justice, 1936. Oil on wooden panel, 11 x 19 cm. Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam.
(The queue got messed up and didn’t post this yesterday. Oopsie!)
Sunday Dalí: Saint Surrounded by Three Pi-Mesons, 1956. Oil on canvas, 42 x 31 cm. Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueras, Spain.
A pi-meson or pion is a meson involved in holding the nucleus together, which is produced as the result of high-energy particle collision.
For those of you whore are still lost (because I am), a meson is an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus.
This painting is clearly emblematic of Dalí’s nuclear-mystic period. The saint is loosely made of particles that seem to be spinning at a very high rate of speed. This reveals Dalí’s understanding and fascination with the atomic level of matter. However, here the “matter” is forming a saint, which symbolizes Dalí’s belief in the divine mysticism of particle physics.
MONDAY Dalí: Remorse or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand, 1931. Oil on canvas. 19.1 x 26.7 cm (7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.). Gift of John F. Wolfram. Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
Sorry for the mix up. Here’s your weekly Dalí!
Apparently, this was at Michigan State the whole time I was there. And I never saw it. So, my friends who are still in East Lansing, GO SEE THIS!
Notice, the shoe and the cup in the woman’s back. We’ve seen this before.
