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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 phenomena." Dalí used this method to bring forth the hallucinatory forms, double images and visual illusions that filled his paintings during the Thirties.

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Swans Reflecting Elephants
Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	1937
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Surrealism
Dimensions	51 cm × 77 cm (20.08 in × 30.31 in)
Location	private collection

As with the earlier Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Swans Reflecting Elephants uses the reflection in a lake to create the double image seen in the painting. In Metamorphosis, the reflection of Narcissus is used to mirror the shape of the hand on the right of the picture. Here, the three swans in front of bleak, leafless trees are reflected in the lake so that the swans' necks become the elephants' trunks, the swans' bodies become the elephants' ears, and the trees become the legs of the elephants. In the background of the painting is a Catalan landscape depicted in fiery fall colors, the brushwork creating swirls in the cliffs that surround the lake, to contrast with the stillness of the water.[1]

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- [en] Swans Reflecting Elephants

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[es] Cisnes que se reflejan como elefantes

Cisnes que se reflejan como elefantes es una pintura por el pintor surrealista español Salvador Dalí. El cuadro fue pintado durante su período paranoico-crítico, y contiene una de las imágenes dobles más conocidas que formaron una parte importante de este período.

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[fr] Cygnes se reflétant en éléphants

Les Cygnes se reflétant en éléphants est une huile sur toile surréaliste peinte par Salvador Dalí.

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[ru] Лебеди, отражающиеся в слонах

«Лебеди, отражающиеся в слонах» — картина испанского художника Сальвадора Дали, написанная в 1937 году. Находится в частной коллекции.

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