The Burning Giraffe is a Surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí from 1937, a period marked by personal anxieties and the shadow of the Spanish Civil War. The work depicts a deformed, fragmented female figure in a desolate, anguished landscape, with drawers emerging from the body as if they were containers of psychic secrets. Behind her, a giraffe burns with a bluish flame, an image as paradoxical as it is symbolic.
Dalí described the giraffe as the "masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster" in flames, a premonition of imminent catastrophe and violence. The anatomies propped up by mechanical supports and the physical tension of the figures suggest a condition of trauma, repression and disintegration of identity. The scene is frozen in a dramatic silence, as in a timeless nightmare. This painting expresses Dalí's sensitivity to the irrational and the subconscious, revealing art as a means of interpreting collective fears and inner turmoil.
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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