Gallantry dragged to its doom
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Back in the days when the middle-aged JMW Turner had no one actually willing to say his paintings were good, or even okay, a young fella called John Ruskin stood out in the middle of the crowd and used words like “brilliant” to describe Turner’s work. They became friends, Ruskin became a respected art critic and Turner became, eventually, brilliant in everyone’s eyes. See the rest.
In a letter about this 1931 painting to the French surrealist poet Paul Eluard, Dalí defined the clouds and the rainbow as being the spectre and the brick shape as being the phantom. The clouds take on forms as the viewer stares at them, reflecting the basis of Dalí’s Paranoia Critical method. 
