Dali juxtaposed forms in his nightmarish environment. He has the haunting environment, with the dark colors, and the burning giraffe. He sets up his picture in some sort of parallel form between men and women. The women that have the double faced masks, are together, and the half- horse, half females are together. It seems as though no matter how close they are to each other, they do not touch each other. Another characteristic of form would be with the little objects that are laying on the table. There is a human hand, towards the lower left side of the drawing, holding an antique watch. Then there is another human hand holding a ball. The hand seems as though it could be the woman's hand that is sitting on the wooden altar. Towards the upper right hand side of the table, lies a sculpture with two heads, perhaps this might of have been a symbol of Dali's love that he has for his wife Gala, since she was known for posing in h

Another way in which Dali emphasizes form in his painting, is through the use of color. Again, he has the dark, and opaque colors throughout the whole drawing, but he mixes it in with this bright red, as the giraffe is burning, and the redness shines on the clouds. It seems as though the lighting on the right side is dark, but as you get towards the middle, the light illuminates it, but yet, as you go towards the upper left, on the half female horse figures, but not nearly as much as it does in the lower left hand side of the picture, which is said to be Dali and his wife being together. But what is ironic about this painting is that you have all these dark colors mixed together, and right in the middle, you have this woman who has a double cat mask, with blue wings. Lastly, what makes his painting unique is probably the fact that it was made on oil in canvas, but you can't see the brush strokes as you do in John Van Eyck's Alfernini Wedding Portrait. In Dali's painting you see that he really prepared the canvas before drawing on it. You also see the detailed paintings. John Van Eyck's, on the other hand, even though it was also made on canvass, you could see the brush strokes with the outlining of his fur coat and the dog.

is paintings. Based on Dali's Persistence of Memory, it seems as though he was still influenced by his previous painting in signifying that time was very important to him. Lastly, there is this dog that you can hardly see on the postcard, but you can actually see it in the real painting. It has been said that the blue dog, that was painted in the lower right hand side of the painting, was done in an unstable pigment, that faded away within a few years from the artist's completion of his work. It was also said that this dog did not symbolize a monster of any kind.

Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, was born in Figueras, Spain. He was a sculptor, painter, and artist. Dali produced his first painting at six, and participated in his first exhibition at the Teatro Municipal. From 1921 to 1926, he attended the school of Fine Arts in Madrid, in which he flouted by painting Cubist works. When Dali went t

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