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Well, I've said it before, but I take Art History and we're doing a contexual essay. I did mine on the Salvidor Dali piece Resurection of the Flesh LINK And I came up with my own theroies, I did no research. and My teacher basicly called me a genious without saying.
It's on four pages size twelve font. Double spaced. Times New Roman. MLA format. I did it at 12 in the morning, and I am going to be adding another page or two of information into it most likely.
pardon any gramatical errors, I am a genious who cant do grammer, but i have a way with words. This is how my mind works...
It says Dude in there somewhere.. but it's supposed to say Nude... My Teacher didnt pick up on that one. xd
here's the essay:
William S*******
AP Art History
Mrs. Marquardt
1/15/2008
Contextual Art Paper on Resurrection of the Flesh
A scene of a horrific romance movie gone terribly wrong,
figures majority of them dude dancing wildly, some of them grotesquely disemboweled and others inhumanly thin all of them moving toward the high ground in the distance and up to the heavens. One of the said figures, this one distinctively covered in bandages, reaches toward the heavens as if trying to grasp and secure his place in it. Other figures stare on at the vile display of dance, fully clothed and appearing to be bored. This is the image that Salvador Dali painted, titled Resurrection of the Flesh, completed in 1945, exact date unknown. Salvador Dali composed this piece because of the end or inevitable end of the war. It symbolizes the end of the war and the new beginnings as well as tributes to the soldiers and innocent people who died and whom are on their way to the heavens.
It should be noted that some of the figures, particularly ones in the foreground are wearing helmets, this is because of the end of World War II and it’s many casualties. It should also be noted that the figures wearing helmets are in and only in the foreground where as every other figure in the background are not, this suggests that the innocent are to be received in heaven first before the soldiers who killed others and committed various other sins. Then there is also the lone fully clothed figure dressed in black who looks to be bored. The black clothing could symbolize mourning, but from the figure’s body language there is no grief. This all supports that the painting most likely was a tribute to the dead of World War II.
Soldiers on the battle field fight to protect the homeland and expand its borders, but what keeps a soldier’s head safe? What makes sure that a soldier’s head is not expanded? That item is called a helmet, created to protect the head of a man or woman from injury and is fashionable and practical head wear during war times. There are two figures, who are clearly wearing war helmets in this work of art, as well as another hunched over figure, he too may be wearing a helmet, carrying what appears to be a chest or trunk on his back with helmets sitting on it.
This leads one to believe that the men are soldiers and from the looks of their emaciated rotting bodies, their dead. One of them is visibly flayed from the waist up and his lower portions are rotting away. The second of the two is walking away on crutches and being held up by them. He of the two seems less reluctant to leave the land of the living and to the heavens. The hunched over figure too is moving toward the background and away from you to the heavens. He carries two helmets on his back, are they the helmets of two other men who lived the war and are paying their respect to the dead?
There are many other figures in the painting as well, countless amounts in the background in a macabre dance toward the steps to heaven. They’re all or mostly all nude which bares significance with the Jews. In World War II the Jewish portions of many countries under axis control were sent to concentration camps. There they would be worked to death or worked until they’re usefulness was extinguished. When they were beyond use the inmates of the concentration camps were stripped then brought to gas chambers where they were killed with mustard gas. The naked bodies of the former now dead inmates burned to ash. Also their dance could be seen as the struggle to escape the gas chambers as they suffocated to death.
There are also a small number of figures who seem to be running and to be clothed in the back ground these would be the men and women that were killed by Nazi Germany in battle. The civilians killed who are now running scared from their oppressors and murderers. They unlike the naked figures were not burned and therefore still retain their clothing, as well as able to run because they hadn’t been starved to near death in a concentration camp.
The figures in the background as previously stated are supposedly the members of concentration camps that were killed off before the war could end. The poor souls of men and women tortured in the camps or abused in the war zone that Western Europe had become for five years. They are nearer the gates of heaven because of this, the fact that they have been prematurely taken from this earth and thrust to the stairs by Nazi Germany and other Axis countries. Where as the soldiers are much further back and still in “limbo” near the very end of the line. It even appears that at least one of the few soldiers has regrets as he is begging forgiveness to a woman who shuns him away.
Then there is the fully clothed figure dressed in black, black has been associated with mourning the loss of loved ones for ages. It is a funerary color and is also associated with grief. Although there is no grief in this figures body language. This could be because of the Spanish revolution and how it occurred at around the same time frame as World War II. Salvador Dali being a citizen of Spain, this would take his priority and he would therefore not have the time to grieve for the rest of Europe. This would explain the figure’s body language and how it appears to be separate from the rest of them because of its clothed state and apparent mourning but lack of grief. One can mourn for the masses, but one can only grieve for one known. So it is possible while highly unlikely that Dali did not loose anyone because of the war or that he simply did not find out until after the painting when the war had been over for quite some time that they had died.
Salvador Dali created Resurrection of the Flesh in 1945, the year that World War II ended. The painting could quite possibly be his response to the war and his tribute to the lost and dead. Its grotesque imagery could very well be depicting the aftermath of the war. But the fact that they all will reach heaven eventually shows a hope in the renewal of the countries affected by the ghastly war and its dilapidating effects
