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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/2440/2447-22.jpg
Title	The Endless Enigma.
Alternative Title	The Great One-Eyed Cretin (or Moron).
Creator	Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989)
Date	1938
Cultural Context	Spanish European Western European
Style/Period	Surrealist Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Avant-garde Fantasy Imagery Illusion Optical illusion Ambiguity Symbolism (artistic concept) Symbols Fear Anxiety Mythology (literary genre) Figurative art Figures (representations) Heads (representations) Heads (animal or human components) Faces (animal or human components) Men (male humans) Poets Authors Friends Women Philosophers Mandolins Musical instruments Beaches Cliffs Landscapes (representations) Boats Watercraft Fruit Pear Fig Fruit bowls Dishes (vessels) Vessels (containers) Containers (receptacles) Tables (support furniture) Furniture
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Symbols Optical illusions Fear Disgrace Anxiety Distress Lust Heads (Anatomy) Faces Men Women Philosophers Poets Authors Supernatural beings Mandolins Musical instruments Beaches Cliffs Landscapes (Representations) Boats Vessels Fruit Pears Bowls (Tableware) Containers Tables Furniture
Description	"The ever-present, brooding presence of Lorca [Federico García Lorca]." (Caption); "That Lorca continued to be on Dali's mind as he worked on Bacchanale is confirmed by a painting done during these months at La Pausa, The Great One-Eyed Cretin (or Moron), soon re-named The Endless Enigma. Like two other works executed the same year, Invisible Afghan Hound with the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of García Lorca in the Form of a Bowl of Fruit with Three Figs and Apparition of a Face and a Bowl of Fruit on a Beach, the painting, remarkable for its intricate assemblage of multiple images (reminiscent of Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion, etc. done eight years earlier), presents a 'materialization' of the poet's head on the shore at Cape Creus, whose cliffs are mirrored in a calma blanca. […] For the catalogue of his forthcoming exhibition in New York Dali prepared a sketch disentangling the complicated network of images that overlap in the painting. He did not explain, however, that the Great One-Eyed Cretin in question was his dead friend. That the picture concerns Dali's relationship with Lorca is confirmed by the upper part of Gala's head, inserted half-way up the right-hand side of the picture as if excluded from what is happening on the beach. Her eyes have the baleful glare of Medusa, and in the opinion of Santos Torroella are reading Dali's innermost feelings for his murdered friend, feelings with which the painter is still not at ease … which is perhaps why Lorca has to be downgraded to the level of Moron." (Excerpt, pp.441-442); Following are the images that Dali 'disentangles' in his New York catalogue sketch, (shown in Gibson, p.441): beach of Cape Creus with seated woman mending sail seen from the back, and boat; reclining philosopher; face of the Great One-Eyed Moron; greyhound; mandoline [sic], fruit-dish with pears, two figs on table; mythological beast. (Caption, p.441)
People Pictured	Dalí, Gala García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
Location Depicted	Creus, Cape (Spain) Spain
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	114.3 x 144 cm
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings
Source	Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XXX)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Archivo Fotográfico Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 2447-22.jpg
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