Beautifully colored and meticulously detailed, Salvador Dali’s “Landscape with Butterflies” exudes an unnerving ambiguity about its subjects’ scale, proportion, and proximity to other objects in the painting. Dali (1904 – 1989) a Surrealist master excelling in numerous styles and media, portrayed complex, symbolic dream imagery and familiar objects in startling forms. Pioneering the Paranoiac-Critical artistic style inspired by Freud, he accessed his subconscious for more intense artistic expression.