Swans reflected in elephants by Salvador Dali ️ Dali Salvador

In Swans Reflecting Elephants, Dali uses double images to transfigure graceful swans into huge, land-locked animals. As in his earlier work, Metamorphosis of Narcissus, he uses water to reflect alternative realities. Here, the trees of the Catalan landscape merge with the swans' reflections to create elephants in a technically brilliant painting.. Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is from Dali's Paranoiac-critical period. Painted using oil on canvas, it contains one of Dali's famous double images. The double images were a major part of Dali's "paranoia-critical method," which he put forward in his 1935 essay "The Conquest of the Irrational."

Salvador Dali Swans Reflecting Elephants meaning. Swans Reflecting Elephants is a representation of Dalí's idea of the "delirium of perception," where reality and imagination become intertwined. The painting depicts two swans, their reflections in the water, and two elephants with their reflections as well... Here, the three swans in front of bleak, leafless trees are reflected in the lake so that the swans' necks become the elephants' trunks, the swans' bodies become the elephants' ears, and the trees become the legs of the elephants. In the background of the painting is a Catalan landscape depicted in fiery fall colors, the brushwork creating.