Limited Edition Giclee Titled “giant Flying Mocha Cup” By Salvador Dali. This Piece Is Facsimile Signed On The Lower Right. Pencil Numbered From An Edition Of 375. Paper Measures 15? X 10?. Image Measures 12.5? X 7.5?. Made On Thick Quality Archival Paper. In Excellent Condition, Comes Unframed. Comes With A Certificate. Salvador Dali Was A Surrealist, And The Surrealists Were Heavily Influenced By Sigmund Freud. And, In Particular, By Freud’s Important Book, Interpretation Of Dreams. We Know, In Freud’s Lexicon Of Dream Imagery And Symbolism, That Receptacles Were Symbolic Of Female Genitalia, And That Long Rods Or Appendages Were Phallic. Could The 42-year-old Dali Have Had A Little Sex On His Mind At The Time He Painted This Work? The Nearby Pomegranate, Which Appeared In Several Other Dali Works Around This Period, Is A Classic Symbol Of Resurrection And Chastity. Now, Below The Floating Cup Is A Stone Cube, With Inlaid Marble And, In The Center Of The Circle, The Head Of Medussa. But Consider That, If You Extended The Circular Pattern Up Onto The Tall Shaft Coming Off The Cup Handle, You’d Be Approximating The Curve Of A Logarithmic Spiral – A Mathematic Principle With Which Dali Was Obsessed, And Which He Employed In Creating The Beautiful Spatial Harmony In His Works – Present Picture Included. A Figure In The Right Distance Appears To Be Arab, Reminding Us Of Dali’s Roots, While The Background Mountain Is Reminiscent Of The Same Eerie Landscape Seen In A Painting With Which Dali Was Long Obsessed: The Isle Of The Dead By Arnold Bocklin. For All The Individual Elements Of Giant Flying Mocha Cup That Can Be Examined And Deciphered, The Larger Arc Of The Painting Connects With An Absolute Truism That Can Be Said Of Much Of Dali’s Diverse Body Of Surrealist Work: It Was Quintessentially Enigmatic! But Let’s Not Forget, Too, That Dali Simply Enjoyed Doing Unusual Things, Often With A Dash Of Humor Sprinkled In For Good Measure. There’s No Question That The Image Of This Spectacularly Strange Coffee Cup Was Calculated To Make Us Smile, If Not Utter An Audible Laugh.

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