Salvador Dali-'Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man'-conceptual framework

Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man Salvador Dali (1904-1989) 1943. Oil on linen canvas, 46.1x 52 cm. Salvador Dali museum, St Petersburg. Surrealism ARTIST Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in 1904 in Spain. He was treated like royalty by his poor parents as they thought of him as the incarnation of his brother who had died 9 months before Salvador's birth. This constantly reminded him of death later resulting in his obsession with death as …showed first 75 words of 817 total…

…showed last 75 words of 817 total…was a child, suggesting the figurative rebirth of Dali himself. Alike most of his other paintings, it includes a personal and a social dimension. WORLD 'Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man' was painted during a time when Germany was falling and America was rising in the war. American solders were seen as a sign of hope in many countries. This painting shows the birth of this new hope and sign of 'peace'.