Dali Corpus Hypercubus

The Corpus Hypercubus, also referenced to as the Crucifixion, is a very unique painting painted by the highly esteemed artist, Salvador Dalí. The Corpus Hypercubus is an oil-on-canvas painting, which was officially completed in 1954. At a quick glance, the painting may seem relatively simple and very reserved for an artist such as Dalí, but with further inspection, one begins to see the deep rooted complexity and meaning of the painting. In order to fully appreciate this piece of art, one has to understand challenging topics such as transcendence and humanitarianism. Without fundamental knowledge of these daunting topics, the observer can not fully comprehend how science, religion, and war affected Dalí and his ability to create a myriad of great artworks.
This theory includes a multitude of different concepts: spacetime, gravity, special relativity and general relativity. Dalí mainly focused on spacetime in this painting, but these four terms share commonalities such as interfering with common knowledge of the third and fourth dimensions. Dalí painted a geometric figure known as a hypercube, which represents a tesseract. In simplistic terms, a tesseract is symbolic of the fourth dimension otherwise known as spacetime. The hypercube is significant because its overarching purpose is to create an optimistic outlook on life, since one’s life is theoretically encompassed within the tesseract. Another geometric formation looming in the painting is the gloomy checkered floor. The two dimensional floor formed by squares represents the segregation of humanity during wartime. It shows how people become very flat in their ability to rationale with an overall acceptance and promotion of humanitarianism