Salvador Dali, Christ of St. John of the Cross

While reading through the text in Launching the Imagination, the entire section on space intrigued me. I have always enjoyed admiring art, yet I have never been able to master the creation of art myself. Figure 4.11, by Salvador Dali, name: Christ of St. John of the Cross, 1951, medium: oil on canvas, immediately caught my attention (97). The artist does a phenomenal job of creating space through the "three point perspective" (96). The technique used gives the viewer the feeling that Jesus and the cross are hovering over the earth to view the sunrise, even while enduring the pain of the cross.