Ooohhh! What’s in my back pocket? Oh its one of my paintings. It is the Apparatus and Hand. I did it during World War 2. Cubism was my favorite type of drawing. It was 1926, when I got expelled from my Art school. I straight away left for Paris and there I met Pablo Picasso.
Why did you name it the Apparatus and Hand?
I thought it sounded cool.
What is the painting about?
The “Apparatus” was the geometric figure, which is much like the human form. The figure of human arms, legs, an eye, and a head. The triangular being up on what appears to be a cane, which was in my work representing sleep. And the hand is just a hand.
What types of paintings were you doing at that time?
Cubism was my main focus at the moment.
The painting that I chose is called “The Apparatus and Hand.” I chose this painting, because when I was looking through the paintings that I wanted to do, this one caught my eye because of its use of colors. Dali has made different types of paintings also. His most famous painting was called the “Persistence of memory.” This painting also used cubes like the apparatus and hand.
