The Benefits of siesta
After a good lunch, We have the gracious tendency to appear in the dreams of great artists:
Salvador Dali, Dream caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, the safer version
The sleeping figure of Gala, Dali’s wife and muse, floats above a rock in a tranquil marine landscape. Beside her naked body, two drops of water, a pomegranate, and a bee are also airborne. Gala’s dream, prompted by the buzzing of the bee, appears in the upper part of the canvas; there, from an exploding pomegranate shoots out a fish, from whose mouth two Playful Cats emerge together with a bayonet which, one second later, will wake Gala from her restful sleep when they graciously land on her soft tender belly.
“Ouch!” you will say, but please have a look at the commonly known version of the masterpiece in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid:
Salvador Dali, Dream caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Cats are less ouch than tigers, aren’t they?
Really, who do you prefer to wake you up in the morning, asking for food, cats, or tigers?
So, no real tigers were involved! You immediately understand who the model for this painting was, alongside Gala.
And the bee is just fluffy, no sting!
Salvador Dali, Dream caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, the safer version, the cat-bee
Everything becomes much, much safer!
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
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