The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1954 oil painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. It is one of a series of seven paintings created for the 1956 film Seven Wonders of the World. The painting shows the Colossus, the ancient statue of the Greek titan-god of the sun, Helios. It was ultimately not used for the movie, and in 1981 was donated to the Kunstmuseum Bern.
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The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1954 oil painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. It is one of a series of seven paintings created for the 1956 film Seven Wonders of the World, each depicting one of the eponymous wonders. The painting shows the Colossus, the ancient statue of the Greek titan-god of the sun, Helios. It was ultimately not used for the movie, and in 1981 was donated to the Kunstmuseum Bern, its present location. Painted two decades after Dalí’s heyday with the surrealist movement, it is emblematic of his shift from the avant-garde to the mainstream. After financial pressures imposed by his move to the United States in 1940, and influenced by his fascination with Hollywood, Dalí shifted focus away from his earlier exploration of the subconscious and perception, and towards historical and scientific themes. The Colossus was a monumental statue of.
the Greek sun god,. Helios, that stood by the harbour of Rhodes for more than half a century in the third century BC. It stood until the 226 BC Rhodes. earthquake, when, according to Pliny the Elder, three centuries later in his Naturalis Historia, it buckled and fell. There are no extant contemporary depictions of the Colossus; the only evidence is textual, much of it summary and postdating the statue by centuries. Scientific attempts to re-envision the Colossus have persisted since the eighteenth century. The paintings were ultimately not use for the film, and were ultimately sold to a private collector, who donated them to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1981. A further two versions of the same wonder, The Walls of Alexandria and The Lighthouse of Alexandria, were painted in 1955 and 1956.
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