Petite rue avec cortège et vol, en haut vol de colverts 1966

Dalí painted this world in watercolor using a warm palette of reddish oranges and cool blues. The application of watercolor makes it feel like the image is in a constant state of becoming. It's as if the scene emerges and dissolves before our eyes. I imagine Dalí hunched over the page, coaxing the watery paint across the paper, letting the pigments mingle and merge, embracing those unpredictable blooms and bleeds. I wonder what he was thinking as he placed each careful mark. There’s a tension here between the planned and the accidental, the controlled and the chaotic. Check out those birds in flight, captured with such precision and detail compared to the blurry figures down below. The beauty of painting is that every artist is in conversation with the history of painting while simultaneously charting their own path, speaking in a unique visual language. For Dalí, his surrealist vision was made all the more potent through paint, a medium that embodies both intention and chance. Ultimately, it invites us to ask questions rather than offer answers, finding meaning in the messy and the unresolved.