Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening "Elephant and Obelisk" by Gian Lorenzo Bernini facing the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. The smaller pomegranate floating between two droplets of water may symbolize Venus, especially because of the heart-shaped shadow it casts. It may also be used as a Christian symbol of fertility and resurrection. This female symbolism may contrast with the phallic symbolism of the threatening creatures. It has also been suggested that the painting is "a surrealist interpretation of the Theory of Evolution." In 1962, Dalí said this painting was intended "to express for the first time in images Freud's discovery of the
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944) is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí. A short, alternate title for the painting is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee. It was painted in 1944, while Dalí and his wife, Gala, were living in America. In this "hand-painted dream photograph", as Dalí generally called his paintings, there is a seascape of distant horizons and calm waters, perhaps Port Lligat, amidst which Gala is the subject of