The Burning Giraffe
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The Burning Giraffe (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.
The image is set in a twilight atmosphere with deep blue sky. There are two female figures, one with drawers opening from her side like a chest. They both have undefined phallic shapes protruding from their backs which are supported crutch-like objects. The hands, forearms and face of the nearest figure are striped down to the muscular tissue beneath the skin. One figure is holding a strip of meat. Both human figures that double as a chest of drawers as well as the crutch like shapes are common archetypes in Dalí’s work.
In the distance is a giraffe with its back on fire. Dalí first used the burning giraffe image in his 1930 film L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age). It appears again in 1937 in the painting The Invention of Monsters. Dalí described this image as “the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster.” He believed it to be a premonition of war.
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