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The Hallucinogenic Toreador
Painting by Salvador Dalí (1970)
The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Spanish: El Torero Alucinógeno) is a 1969–1970 multi-leveled oil painting by Salvador Dalí which employs the canons of his particular interpretation of surrealist thought.
It is currently being exhibited at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In The Hallucinogenic Toreador Dalí transmits his wife's dislike for bullfighting by combining symbolism, optical illusions, and estranging yet familiar motifs.
Dali used his paranoiac-critical method to create his own visual language within the painting, and combined versatile images as an instructive example of his artistic ability and vision.
Description
The entire scene is contained within a bullfighting ring, submerged under a barrage of red and yellow tones, alluding tentatively to the colors of the Spanish flag.
In the upper left section we observe a representational portrait of Dali's wife, Gala, to whom the artist