Painted with exceptional coloration and meticulous detail, Salvador Dali’s “Landscape with Butterflies” creates a disquieting ambiguity from its lack of familiar objects with which to give the work a sense of scale or proportions, making the butterflies appear abnormally large. A master of the Surrealist movement, Dali (1904 – 1989) worked in a broad range of styles and mediums, depicting symbolically complex dream imagery and everyday objects in unexpected forms. Profoundly influenced by Sigmund Freud, Dali pioneered the Paranoiac-Critical style of accessing the subconscious for greater creative expression.

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