Salvador Dali:

The Cosmic Athlete 1960

- oil on canvas -

- unknown dimensions -

- Palacio de la Zarzuela, Madrid -

How to picture cosmic time and the human heroism of taking its full load? In this case Dali departing from the classical ideal of the sportsman 'with many points of view in him' and his physical beauty he showed mankinds way to heaven by means of the sportive loyalty to the sundisc. If we throw that disc of our time-focus the right way we ascend... but, out of sport, out of heaven; we play with fire. Also the cyclic of time is caught with this picture: the repression the artist is rebelling against.
Dali's collected works: Dali Gallery 

 


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