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Salvador Dalí. Dematerialization near the Nose of Nero, 1947.

Throughout his career Dalí made evident but sometimes inscrutable references to mysticism and what he considered to be sacred knowledge. Also to Nero, who for him was related to both these ideas. I compare the treatment here of the atomic bomb to his brilliant Christopher Columbus painting more than a decade later, which seemed to overtly prefigure the Moon landing by several years.

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