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Swans Reflecting Elephants
Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. This painting is from Dalí's Paranoiac-critical period. Painted using oil on canvas, it contains one of Dalí's famous double images. The double images were a major part of Dalí's "paranoia-critical method", which he put forward in his 1935 essay "The Conquest of the Irrational". He explained his process as a "spontaneous method of irrational understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of delirious
work, with a barren graduated background and lack of other content, where most of Dalí's paintings contain much detail and points of interest (for example "Swans Reflecting Elephants" which is somewhat better known within Dalí's repertoire than "The Elephants" ). The stork-legged elephant is one of the best-known icons of Dalí's work and adorns the walls of the Dalí Museum in Spain.
Symbolism.
There are various cultural depictions of elephants, where they are often viewed as symbols of strength,