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Comparison Between The Metamorphosis, by Kafka, and metamorphosis, by Salvatore Dali
Title: Comparison Between The Metamorphosis, by Kafka, and metamorphosis, by Salvatore Dali
Category: Literature / European Literature
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Comparison Between The Metamorphosis, by Kafka, and metamorphosis, by Salvatore Dali
The painting that I chose to compare to the novel Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, was painted in 1937 by Salvatore Dali. Dali is an established Surrealist painter, who, like Kafka, explored his own psyche and dreams in his work. Dali invented a process, called the 'paranoiac critical method', which is used in this painting, to assist his creative process. As Dali described it, his aim in painting was 'to materialize the images of concrete irrationality with …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…since the audience is directly looking at what is in Dali's mind, whereas we must visualize on our own what Kafka believes to be true of Gregor. Another advantage of Dali's surrealism is that his color usage allows for a much easier depiction of Dali's mood, as well as the narcissist portrayed.
Footnotes:
1.) Tansey, Richard G. and Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Book 2, Tenth
Edition; Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996, New York. P. 1076
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