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? And you immediately understand who was a model for this painting, alongside Gala. No real tigers were involved!
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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