CHRIST OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

• Artist- Salvador Dali

• Year- 1951

• Type- Oil on Canvas

• Dimensions- 205 cm × 116 cm

(80.7 in × 45.67 in)

• Location- Kelvingrove Art

Gallery and Museum (first floor)

Depicts Jesus Christ on the

cross.

Composition of Christ is based

on a triangle and circle

Triangle of the Holy Trinity

Circle in the centre of the

triangle meaning he is the

centre of the universe

Technique

Surrealistic Technique- a paranoiac-critical method

developed by Dali.

Involved optical illusions and other multiple

images.

"spontaneous method of irrational knowledge

based on the critical and systematic objectivity

of the associations and interpretations of

delirious phenomena."