Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Skimpy clothes? More like a bombshell!

Identify the painter and the inspiration for the painting.


The answer to last week's question was: Professor Cuthbert Calculus, who was based on Auguste Picard, the famous scientist. 

4 comments:

  1. It is a painting by Salvador Dali, "Three Sphinxes of Bikini", inspired by experimental explosions in Bikini, an atoll in Marshall Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean, used by the US as a site for nuclear testing between 1946-58

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  2. Salvadore Dali- The Three Sphinxes of Bikini, 1947- Nuclear Bombing in WW-II

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  3. The Three Sphinxes of Bikini by Salvador Dali. Inspiration: nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll

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  4. the three sphinxes of bikini 1947.

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