Título: Salvador Dalí
Seção: Symbolism
Background: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Pubol (11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dali ( Catalan: [s@lb@'do d@'li]; Spanish: [salba'dor da'li]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

Conteúdo: Dali employed extensive symbolism in his work. For instance, the hallmark "melting watches" that first appear in The Persistence of Memory suggest Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed. The idea for clocks functioning symbolically in this way came to Dali when he was staring at a runny piece of Camembert cheese on a hot August day.  The elephant is also a recurring image in Dali's works. It appeared in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. The elephants, inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture base in Rome of an elephant carrying an ancient obelisk, are portrayed "with long, multijointed, almost invisible legs of desire" along with obelisks on their backs. Coupled with the image of their brittle legs, these encumbrances, noted for their phallic overtones, create a sense of phantom reality. "The elephant is a distortion in space", one analysis explains, "its spindly legs contrasting the idea of weightlessness with structure." "I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly." --Salvador Dali, in Dawn Ades, Dali and Surrealism.  The egg is another common Daliesque image. He connects the egg to the prenatal and intrauterine, thus using it to symbolize hope and love; it appears in The Great Masturbator and The Metamorp

user: Was Salvador a symbol?

assistant: Dali employed extensive symbolism in his work. For instance, the hallmark "melting watches"

user: What did melting watches symbolize?

assistant: suggest Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.

user: What paintings did he use melting watches in?

assistant: The Persistence of Memory

user: Were there other artworks with melting watches?

assistant: The idea for clocks functioning symbolically in this way came to Dali when he was staring at a runny piece of Camembert cheese on a hot August day.

user: What were other major symbols in his artwork?

assistant: The elephant is also a recurring image in Dali's works.

user: What artwork incorporates elephants?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: The egg is another common Daliesque image.

user: What does the egg symbolize?

assistant: He connects the egg to the prenatal and intrauterine, thus using it to symbolize hope and love;

user: What does the elephant symbolize?

assistant: The elephant is a distortion in space", one analysis explains, "its spindly legs contrasting the idea of weightlessness with structure." "