[Konstantin]

Separately want to write about favorite picture.
"Dawn, noon, sunset and twilight" in 1979

The motif of the painting "Angelus! Francois Millet - one of the archetypal themes of creativity Dali. Since the 1930s, the artist plays it more than ten times the motif became the subject of articles and essays Daly who called Millet masterpiece" amazing, mysterious and meaningful picture the richest subconscious ideas of all that has ever been written, "For Dali pose peasant unexpectedly joined with the image of the female praying mantis, that is, with the Freudian notion of" mother-devourer ".

And here is the same picture and that's what we know about her:

This picture is ordered Millet's American artist Thomas Appleton, fascinated by "pickers ears." Millet wrote a peasant and his wife at sunset. They stand with bowed voices, listening to the church bell, and out to be for the evening prayer. Such a prayer is read by Catholics three times a day. The work was called by her first words («Angelus Domini», which means "angel of the Lord"). Appleton, for unknown reasons did not buy the picture, and she spent ten years passed from hand to hand, from time to time appearing at trade shows. Its simplicity and pathos of piety charmed beholds-lei, and soon nearly every French house appeared reproduction of this work. In 1889, when the picture again offered for sale, for it fiercely fought the Louvre and a consortium of U.S. sales force. American particle won, giving the canvas for the Mille record sum for those times (580 000 francs).