Richard Hamilton's Work Interior Is Thesis

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One could almost argue that it is in the same manner of a collage that the cinematography mixes with the almost painted images of Salvador Dali's dreams. The idea of the movie is just a pretext: a mentally deranged individual is put in charge of a mental asylum, an ironical premise that allows the director to explore the deep implications of the human personality, including veritable dream sequences in which the art is shown so as to provide an argumentation for the infinity of the ideals. I think this combination of different arts to present the same perspective for the artist is also one of the characteristics of pop art.

The eclectic perspective in Spellbound is also given by the numerous issues that are being approached in the movie, besides the psychological and psychoanalytic aspects. The movie is also a mystery movie, it is a romantic story and it's also a movie about individual challenges in each individual, as well as the capacity to help others.


Dali's painting "Illuminated Pleasure" comes in the usual style of the artist as an expression of a dream -- like reality that comprises some of the usual symbols that Dali likes to populate his painting with, including flowing figures and repetitions of different characters, like the painting within the painting with the numerous cyclists.

On the other hand, the painting is also interesting because of the numerous paintings within the same painting, pictures that give new realities and open new perspective for the simple viewer. In this way, one can have the impression that there are several actions going on in the same painting......

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