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Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire

Painting by Salvador Dalí

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches the people. A variety of people seem to make up the face of Voltaire, while the face seems to be positioned on an object to form a bust of Voltaire. Voltaire was a French writer and philosopher known for his opposition to slavery.

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The painting was completed in 1940 in oil on canvas. Dalí describes his work on the painting "to make the abnormal look normal and the normal look abnormal."[1] He used a technique so called "double mage", where one form contains two or more images. In the painting, two women dressed in seventeenth-century costumes form the face of Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Voltaire.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Beech, Martin (Oct 27, 2011). The Physics of Invisibility: A Story of Light and Deception. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 24. ISBN 9781461406150.
  2. [2]
    Moorhouse, Paul (2001). Dali (Reprinted 2004 ed.). London: PRC Publishing Limited. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-85648-674-3. Retrieved 5 June 2024.

VanRullen R, Koch Ch. Is perception discrete or continuous ? Trends Cogn Sci.2003;7(5):207-213.

Further reading

  1. Costandi, Mo. "The Ghostly Gaze and the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire". The Guardian (U.S. Edition). Monday 19 September 2011 10.48 EDT.


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