Doppelbild // Double Image
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, 1940 Source: The Dali Museum Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire is an oil painting by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí , from 1940. The painting depicts a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches the people. A variety of people, dressed in a 17th century fashion, seem to make up the face of Voltaire, while the face seems to be positioned on an object to form a bust of Voltaire. Voltaire was a French rationalist writer and philosopher known for his opposition to slavery. Dalí describes his work on the painting "to make the abnormal look normal and the normal look abnormal." He used the technique of the "double image", where one form contains two or more images. Source: Wikipedia Source: The Dali Museum In his autobiography, The Secret Life, Dalí compares the perception of these double images with camouflage; “The invisible image of Voltaire may be compared in every resp...