Artists choose their subjects for various reasons, which are seldom known to us.
Salvador Dali described the burning giraffe in his paintings as "the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster." He believed it to be a premonition of war.
Harpo Marx and Dali talked about making a movie together and one of the scenes was to be a dinner party lit by the flames of giraffes manes. There is a drawing of this dinner party of people in formal attire at a long table with about a dozen guests.
His dreams or dreamlike pictures.
Landscapes.
He was a surrealist.
It was painted in 1978
because he was........
he didn't, Munch did in 1893 way before Dali
Oil paint.
Dreamlike, seemingly realistic pictures.
When he was 5.
Oil paint on canvas.