Friday, March 11, 2011

War and creativity

War runs a parrallel event in creativity; the between the war period in the '20s and '30s as well as the Sixties. these pictures by Salvador Dali show the Christ in war and peace.

1943 (candle in head; enlightened one - oil drips form Christ wound - Texas Jesus in desert. Arms are gone - no longer holds universe together (see Black's Four Boas). The naked man has been in Dali's pictures for 20 years morphing as a knight on horseback similar to the "death" card in zodiac.:



This in 1951:



This in 1954: