This oil painted piece was done in 1935. It is the second version of a drawing called Paranoiac Visage that dali did back in 1931. Dali painted a group of African villagers, a domed stone hut and trees and bush in the background. The painting is two in one. As in the villagers turn into the face, eyes, nose and mouth. The trees and bush turn into hair. The hut is the left side of the face. The chin is a vase. The wall is a neck. You can see this painting in two different ways one way is that it is a group of African Villagers living in a hut out in the dessert. Another way you can see the painting is a sideways Picasso like face. This style of artwork interests me a lot because either way you see the painting is correct. His artwork always had a lot of surreal properties to them. The background is so baron that it seems like no one can survive with the low amount of water and natural resources. His art always has real and fake properties that have such good shading and detail that it looks like it could be real. He Uses the rule of thirds in this piece of art but the main focus seems very centered. It makes me wish that he had cropped this piece of art. The color scheme is Primary (Red, Yellow, Blue) with a little bit of green. Overall I very much like this piece.
