Alice au pays des merveilles 1968

This is Dalí, who painted Alice in Wonderland using oil on canvas, and looking at it, I imagine he painted it fast, with a brush loaded with paint and maybe a palette knife too. Just imagine him, trying to capture the essence of a dream, letting one image morph into another, a rabbit becoming a landscape, a girl jumping rope over a mushroom. He’s using thin glazes of color and thick globs of paint, kind of like a collage, the textures doing as much work as the images. That insect hovering up there could be a nod to the surrealists’ love of nature, or maybe it's just a bug that flew into the painting. You know, art is just a conversation between artists through time, one idea sparking another, like a game of telephone, constantly evolving, constantly surprising.