I did the meditative rose by Salvador Dali.  Dali was
born in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain on May11, 1904 and died on January 23, 1989.                  
           
            I did the same painting as Salvador Dali, so it is in the same style as the artist.  The painting, Meditative Rose, has
bright colors and dark colors.  It also has an unrealistic quality, obviously because roses do not naturally float in the sky.  It shows a sunset without the sun in a desert type setting with the rose as the only real subject.  There is a dark sky and grey storm cloud over the rose. 
        The rose as the subject, is in the place of the sun, and Dali could be saying that the sun is beautiful and vibrant as a rose and should be recognized as something with beauty.  There is a saying that people should stop and smell the roses which means take time out of a busy schedule and look at the world around because you could be missing out on life.  Dali could be trying to say this about the sun or even theuniverse.  This could also symbolize the existence of a greater being watching over us or just being present in ourlives, which so many of us look over and never come to realize.  I think this painting shows a beauty and describes a happiness that not many take the time to see.  The message is this: the world is not the ugly place that people make it out to be, and there are things that are beautiful, good, and pure that needed to be seen.  I think my picture is similar to that of Dali.  It is hard to match the talent he put in his work, so it is not identical, but similar.        
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