Enkidu Meets Salvador Dali - The Great Masturbator (1929)
Description
This painting entitled The Great Masturbator
was created by Salvador Dali in 1929. This painting depicts Salvador Dali's
erotic imagination of a woman, namely Gala Dalí who later became his wife. In
this painting depicted the male genitalia, then there is a female face near the
male genitalia. According to Dali himself, he chose yellow as the dominant
color to describe himself sleeping and enjoying his dreams. This painting is
recognized as one of Salvador Dali's best paintings, because the peak of his
surreal imagination is presented in the palette and brush in the frame of the
painting.