Geopolitical Child Watches Birth New Human by Salvador Dali - Whilst the world is on fire Dali paints the birth of the new human. Frightened, seeking the protection of its mother, the child sees a man struggling to escape a plastic egg from which the continents drip down. Here stands the new symbol of a new order, a new beginning for a new and perfect world. The painting is a plea for a radical liberation from the oppressive past.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK: In the opening sentences of his manifest which was published some years before Dali says, When during the history of its culture a people feel the need to cut the ties with which it is bound to the logical systems of the past in order to obtain an independent mythology - a mythology which perfectly fits its essence and its total expression of their biological reality and is recognized by the higher elite- then public opinion demands from the pragmatic society, considering its own systematic, that the motives for such a split is enlightened with traditional and worn out formulas."

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Dali sublimated his life in his art of painting. Relying on great craftsmanship, acquired in all sorts of art expe(more...)