"Belvedere"
Mauritz Escher, 1958.
In 1958, physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose published an article on impossible figures in the British Journal of Psychology. This and other articles by the scientist inspired Escher to turn impossible geometry into impossible architecture. Thanks to Penrose, the world saw the "Belvedere"
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"Suffering" (1878) is one of the most popular works in the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
A sheep stands in front of its dead lamb and cries out in grief. They are already surrounded by crows, and the muted hues convey an atmosphere of hopelessness.
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"Burning Giraffes and Telephones"
Salvador Dalí, 1937.
In Dalí's symbolic series, the burning giraffe is an image of the coming war. It appears on Dalí's canvases on the eve of the Second World War
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The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture created in 1930 at the Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, Spain
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"Gradiva"
Salvador Dalí, 1931.
Dalí associated Gradiva with his wife Gala. They met in 1929 in Cadaqués, where Gala and her former husband Paul Éluard came to visit the artist. She soon became the center of Dalí's personal and artistic life.
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