SALVADOR DALI: THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROPORTION IN ART

Proportion is an artistic device that artist Salvador Dali continually toyed with.

Elephants by Salvador Dali

A Good Artist will play with the mind altering Perspective of Proportion:

Salvador Dali’s the Elephants emphasizes proportion in a work of art through the presentation of the enormous elphants on both the right and left sides of the work, and the very very tiny figures that stand in between them.  By making the people so very tiny, the elephant’s are seen as larger than life. We, as humans, compare everything to the human form, and so by making the people so small in this work, the elephants look larger.