# @dalimuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DK2uBtxuegy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34029148-dalimuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-13T20:49:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Dalí Museum (@dalimuseum) — https://gondola.cc/dalimuseum

## Caption

leaning into the surreal ✨

In Salvador Dalí’s works, crutches are not just supports—they’re symbols of death, snobbery or the comforts of old age. 

These dreamlike props act as metaphors for emotional & physical support, inviting the viewer to reconsider what seems solid & notice what may be quietly collapsing.

🖼️ “The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition” (1934)
🖼️ “Daddy Longlegs of the Evening–Hope!” (1940)
🖼️ “Average Atmospherocephalic Bureaucrat in the Act of Milking a Cranial Harp” (1933) 
🖼️ “Untitled (Persistence of Fair Weather)” (1932)
🖼️ “The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table” (1934)
🖼️ “The Javanese Mannequin” (1934) 
🖼️ “Meditation on the Harp” (1933) 
🖼️ “Skull with Its Lyric Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Should Have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal Bird’s Nest” (1934) 
🖼️ “Falla del Foc” (1954) 

#thedali #dali #salvadordali #surrealism #surreal #arthistory

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thedali, arthistory, surreal, surrealism, salvadordali, dali

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