This is one of Dali’s most famous and well known art works exemplifies the artist’s style during the thirties: Which, apart from Surreal as always was ebbing toward the paranoid and the critical. The thirties were unsettled with regards to politics and in reaction many European artists were advancing toward fascism within their work:

All the elements within this oil painting seem to merge and in this way create a heightened sense of drama which has a disturbing edge. While the imagery hear could be described as somewhat grotesque it in no way reaches the heights of Picasso’s Guernica produced just one year earlier: Even so, both artists were visualizing their political view of the civil war in Spain.

Salvador Dali was an influential artist with regards to the surreal arts and modernism. Today his oil paintings and art works are instantly recognized throughout the world: And few more so that this, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach.