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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/2440/2447-25.jpg
Title	My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture.
Creator	Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989)
Date	1945
Cultural Context	Spanish European Western European
Style/Period	Surrealist Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Panel paintings (painting by form) Avant-garde Fantasy Symbols Symbolism (artistic concept) Imagery Figurative art Figures (representations) Women Wives Spouses Portraits Back views Nudes (representations) Nudity Sitting Drapery (representations) Hairstyles Barrettes Hair ornaments Sculpture (visual work) Heads (representations) Three-quarter views Oblique views Walls Cracks Architecture (object genre) Fantastic architecture Pavilions (garden structures) Architectural elements Plants (vegetation) Vegetation
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Fantasy Symbols Women Spouses Portraits Backs (Anatomy) Nudes Sitting Hairstyles Hair ornaments Sculpture Heads (Anatomy) Walls Architecture Fantastic architecture Pavilions Architectural elements Architectural decorations & ornaments Weeds Plants
Description	"One of Dali's finest paintings from the 1940s." (Caption); "My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Body Transformed into Steps, the Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture, on the other hand, was one of the finest, and most refreshingly original, paintings Dali was to execute during his eight-year sojourn in the United States. Three years later he reproduced it in color in 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, which suggests that for him it represented one of the purest expressions of the new classicism he was now propounding (symbolized by the Greek head affixed to the wall, reminiscent of the emblem of the Residencia de Estudiantes). The deep perspective of the painting, however, is in Dali's best Surrealist manner, while both the design and coloring of the pavilion into which Gala's body is transformed owe an unacknowledged debt to the fantastic pink constructions invented by Hieronymous Bosch in The Garden of Earthly Delights, which Dali and Lorca had admired together in the Prado." (Excerpt, p.490)
People Pictured	Dalí, Gala
Material	Oil on wood Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Wood (plant material)
Measurements	61 x 52 cm
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making) Panel painting (image-making)
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings Panel paintings (painting by form)
Source	Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XXXIII)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Collection Jose Mugrabi, New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 2447-25.jpg
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