Salvador Dalí, Metamorphosis of Narcissus Dalí was a leader of the Surrealist art movement, which emerged in the late 1920s. Surrealists were deeply influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and used strange and evocative symbols in their work to capture the inner workings of dreams and the unconscious. In this 1937 painting, Dalí plays with the Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and drowned in a pool. What mysterious significance, if any, lies behind this surreal reordering of everyday reality?
(© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala–Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York 2016/photo: Granger, NYC—