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The Great Masturbator Analysis
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- Sat May 10 2008
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... ART ESSAY - BASIL RAZI THE GREAT MASTURBATOR The Great Masturbator is a painting by the famous surrealist artist Salvador Dali. The painting was completed in 1929 during the surrealist epoch. It measures 110 x 150 cm and is Oil on Canvas. The Great Masturbator is currently displayed at Musea Nacional Centro de Arte. This piece of artwork has a flat plane that stretches into the horizon and runs along the bottom of the image. The background is a sky which fades from dark blue/purple at the top through light blues and yellow-greens, down to light yellow at the horizon. Small wisps of clouds are visible in the top left of the image. The light comes from the right, this creates a chiaroscuro effect. The light is roughly at the level of a large face, a figure that takes most of the canvas and that is formed with an outlined scalp













