This painting represents my newest exploration of the tempest: Narcissus--the deceived man who is in love with the image. In the masque of the Tempest what we see is man magically lead-on by his love of the image. Miranda and Caliban are perhaps the most persuaded by such "divine images." Dali's painting "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus" shows the landscape of wasteland and water on one side and the landscape of the flower-narcissus' dead body, the chess board (the play within the play-Tempest) and the drama of human actions(naked bodies dancing in the background). I think he has The Tempest down pretty well. Or, then again, maybe this class has ruined me and I am gyreing/spiraling into insanity....
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