The Apotheosis of Homer (Dalí)

Painting by Salvador Dalí

The Apotheosis of Homer

Artist	Salvador Dalí
Year	c. 1945 (1945)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	63.7 cm × 116.7 cm (25.1 in × 45.9 in)
Location	Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

The Apotheosis of Homer is an oil on canvas painting by Salvador Dalí, created c. 1945. It is at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, in Munich.

Description

The canvas reflects the painter's fascination with Greek and Roman history and mythology. Gloria Platzner speculates that Dali "reduces Homer to a piece of broken statuary, a relic, while the solid temple of the muse itself melts"... The "ethereal horse" in the painting, which may be Pegasus, rejecting the riders who attempt to reach the stars, again signals the cessation of the myth. On the right, Gala, his wife, is depicted as a sleeping nude woman.

References

"Apotheosis of Homer (Diurnal Dream of Gala): Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí". Salvador Dalí Foundation. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
Stephen L. Harris, Gloria Platzner, Classical Mythology: Images and Insights, Mountain View: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1995
"Apotheosis of Homer (Diurnal Dream of Gala): Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí". Salvador Dalí Foundation. Retrieved 25 August 2019.

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List of works
Paintings	List of works Landscape Near Figueras (1910) Vilabertran (1913) Cabaret Scene (1922) Portrait of My Father (1925) Young Woman at a Window (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Accommodations of Desire (1929) The Great Masturbator (1929) The Invisible Man (1929–1932) The Persistence of Memory (1931) The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934) Morphological Echo (1934–1936) A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936) Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) The Burning Giraffe (1937) Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) The Enigma of Hitler (1939) Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939) The Face of War (1940) Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) Basket of Bread (1945) The Apotheosis of Homer (1945) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) The Elephants (1948) Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949) Leda Atomica (1949) The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954) The Colossus of Rhodes (1954) Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954) Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954) The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) Living Still Life (1956) The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59) The Ecumenical Council (1959–60) Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963) La Gare de Perpignan (1965) Tuna Fishing (1966–67) The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970) La Toile Daligram (1972) Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973) Lincoln in Dalivision (1977) The Swallow's Tail (1983)
Painting series	The Seven Lively Arts (1944; 1956)
Other artworks	Lobster Telephone (1936) Lobster dress (1937) Mae West Lips Sofa (1937) Champagne Standard Lamps (1938) Rainy Taxi (1938) A Logician Devil (1951)
Writings	Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937) The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942) Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman) Être Dieu (1985)
Films	Un Chien Andalou (1929) L'Age d'Or (1930) Spellbound (1945, dream sequence) Destino (1946, completed 2003)
Set design and costumes	Mariana Pineda (1927 production)
Museums	Dalí Theatre and Museum (Dalí·Jewels) Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum Salvador Dalí House Museum Salvador Dalí Museum Dalí Paris Dalí Universe Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
Related	Gala Dalí (wife) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation Paranoiac-critical method Salvador Dalí and dance Chupa Chups Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph) Salvador Dalí (1966 film) The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film) Little Ashes (2008 film) Midnight in Paris (2011 film) Dalíland (2022 film) Daaaaaalí! (2023 film) "Salvador Dalí" (song) 2919 Dali (asteroid) Dali crater Portlligat (village) Salvador Dalí Desert Dalí cross

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