Many art aficionados equate Dalí with schlock. But his early work boasts some breathtakingly head-bending subject matter, with technical skills to match. This painting was made after Breton had put Dalí on trial but before he’d expelled him from the movement—for being too fashionable, too much of a publicity hound, and too taken with Hitler.
 
Salvador Dalí, Couple With Their Heads Full of Clouds, 1936, from the Tate Modern’s version of "Surrealism: Desire Unbound." Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, © Tate Photography.
 

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