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Christology of Salvador Dal: Visual Art as Theological Text

As a noun, grotesque implies that an object either occupies mulCple categories orfalls between categories; it implies the collision of other nouns, or the impossibility of nding a synonym. As an adjecCve, grotesque oers no posiCve descripCon. It funcCons as a placeholder to describe a contradicCon or disturbing quality that cannot be otherwise described. - Harpham, On the Grotesque, 26.

Raphael, The Transgura1on of Christ, 1520.

Salvador Dal, San1ago el Grande, 1957.

Salvador Dal, The Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955.

Salvador Dal, San1ago el Grande, 1957.

Salvador Dal, Crucixion (Corpus Hypercubus), 1954.

A Cube and Hypercube Unfolded

Salvador Dal, Crucixion (Corpus Hypercubus), 1954.

Salvador Dal, The Ascension of Christ, 1958.

Salvador Dal, The Madonna of Port Lligat, 1949.

Salvador Dal, The Ascension of Christ, 1958.

It was divine, it was paradiseThe intra-uterine paradise was red, orange, yellow, and bluish, the color of ames

No, [I am not God,] not at all. A^er all, Dal is intelligent and God is not.