The Temptation of St. Anthony (Dalí)

This masterpiece was painted by a Spanish surrealist artist, Salvador Dalí.

    It was painted in the year 1946, it is a precursor to the body of Dalí's work commonly known as the "classical period" or the "Dalí Renaissance".(va ser pintada a l´any…)

    Its style is surrealistic because it contains typical elements of his work. Significantly, it was the first of his pieces to exhibit his interest in the intermediates between Heaven and Earth. The painting is now at the Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, in Brussels, Belgium.(El seu estil és…)     

Dalí painted "The Temptation of St. Anthony" in 1946, in response to a contest held by the David L. Loew-Albert Lewin film production company for a painting of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, to be used in the film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. This was the only art contest in which Dalí participated, and ultimately his painting was not chosen for the film.

 

EXPRESSIONS TO BE USED DURING THE PRESENTATION

   This painting appeals to me because in the painting there are animals and I love all of them.(Aquesta pintura m´atrau perquè…)

 It conveys a feeling of stress because it is too subrrealistic (Em transmet un sentiment de…)

   It portrays St. Antonio Abad in a desert kneeling and holding a cross made of two sticks to ward off the temptations that attack him with the ancient gesture of exorcism. These are represented by a horse and a row of elephants, all these with their long and thin legs and each carrring a temptations  (El quadre retrata…)

   In the foreground we can see St. Antonio Abad he is naked and disheveled and rests on a stone. In front of him is a skull.
/in the background we can see a horse and a row of elephants. (En primer pla podem veure/ En segon pla podem veure…)

   At the top there are some black and white clouds. ( A dalt hi ha…)

   At the bottom there is the floor ( A baix hi ha…)

   On the right, you can see St. Antonio Abad again.( A la dreta es pot veure…)

  On the left, you can see the last elefant of the row with a column, and you can see a cliff( A l´esquerra es pot veure…)