FACE OF WAR

HISTORY

• the Face of War was painted in 1940
• Painting was created due to three year long spanish civil war
• The Spanish Civil War affected the Spaniards severely due to their goal to become a Republic
• The outcome was a total dictatorship
• Dali painted the Face of War to pay homage to Spain

FACTS

• Salvador's painting is a way of expressing his feelings towards war
• Seen in the painting are repetitive faces of death and decay
• This shows that, to Salvador, all he thought about war was death

MORE FACTS!

• Another noticeable feature is the faces in the eyes and the mouth
• The faces show death and despair
• Because the faces are in the eyes and mouth, Dali wanted to show that The Face of War only sees and speaks death

AND YET EVEN MORE FACTS!

• Another symbol is in the bottom right corner
• Dali painted the hand to show the definiton of war using art instead of words
• Dali felt pain and destructions of war mentally and physically

WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE BUT FACTS!!!

• Dali shows his prospective of war by painting a corpse face who screams death and suffering
• As some may not know, it is not just the suffering the face is going through, but the realization of the face stuck in a world with war surrounding it
• Dali painted The Face of War to fight against the spanish civil war because all it brings is Pain, death, suffering, and despair

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