Anamorphose 1, Le nu 1970

Salvador Dalí created Anamorphose 1, Le nu using watercolour and ink. Dali's painting is a whirlwind of color, a fever dream caught on paper. Look at the way he’s wrestled with the image, smearing and blotting, layering strokes of black, grey, blue, red and gold until a face—or maybe just the ghost of one—emerges from the chaos. It's as if he started with something solid, a portrait maybe, and then let it dissolve, pulled apart by the sheer force of his imagination. You can almost see him there, hunched over the paper, brush dancing, lost in a world of his own making. That single red slash across the lips, for example, is so deliberate, so full of intent. It seems to be a reference to Picasso or maybe even to the old masters, but twisted, subverted, turned inside out. This piece feels connected to the bigger picture, to the Surrealist movement, where artists play with the subconscious, and explore the absurd. Ultimately, it's a reminder that painting isn't about answers, it's about questions, about opening up a space where anything is possible.