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5. I see what you mean.

Reply to UTUSN (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 19, 2025, 03:24 PM

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also the body is horizontal while we're used to seeing it vertical.

As a fallen-away Catholic, I've seen many crucifixes, some quite graphic. (There's no one like a Catholic for fetishizing suffering, you know.) He was Spanish, so probably saw a lot of the bloodier crucifix paintings. This isn't bloody, and doesn't look like suffering-- it's almost like he's levitating in some exalted ascension to heaven maybe?

Dali was a really great draftsman, wasn't he?

LOL about him being so arrogant. The mustache tells us that too!

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