Si mostrano trenta e piu smisurati giganti, con i quali ho intenzione di azzuffarmi… 1962

Salvador Dalí made this in 1962 with watercolour and ink, and you can feel the speed and urgency of it. I imagine Dalí, like a conductor of chaos, guiding the ink across the page, coaxing bizarre figures into existence. Look at that dense, inky black mass forming the giant's hair and beard, almost like a Rorschach test gone wild! And those pale yellow ears – are they listening to the madness, or perhaps whispering their own surreal secrets? I can almost feel the brushstrokes as he flicked at the page, a constant back and forth between control and chance. It reminds me a little of Goya’s darker etchings, but with that distinct twist of Dalí’s flamboyant personality. It's like he's saying, "Here's a monster, but don't take it too seriously!" It’s an ongoing conversation in art history, I think, to see how artists find new ways to express the uncanny and make us question what’s real.