The Great Masturbator

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Artist : Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989)

Title : The Great Masturbator

Object type: painting

Genre: portrait

Year : 1929

Medium : Oil on canvas

Dimensions : 110 cm × 150 cm (43.3 in × 59.1 in)

Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí painted during the surrealist period and is currently displayed at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. The center of the painting has a twisted human face in profile looking downwards, based on the shape of a natural rock formation at Cap de Creus along the seashore of Catalonia. A similar profile is seen in Dalí's more popular painting of two years later, The Persistence of Memory.

A nude female figure rises from the back of the head. this may be the masturbatory fantasy proposed by the title. The woman's mouth is near a thinly clad male crotch, a suggestion that fellatio may take place. The male figure seen only from the waist down has bleeding fresh cuts on his knees. Below the central profile head, on its mouth, is a grasshopper. A swarm of ants gathers on the grasshopper's stomach, as well as on the face. In the landscape below, three other figures are arranged, along with an egg and sparse other features. Two of the characters in the landscape are arranged in such a way as to cast a long single shadow, while the other character is seen hurriedly walking into the distance on the edge of the canvas. On the back of the central head figure, a formation of two rocks and a potted dry plant can be seen, the pot of the plant placed over the bottom rock while balancing the other rock on top of it in an unrealistic way.

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