nd Gala left France only one week before Nazi invasion, and it was Picasso who paid for their transfer. Dali lost many of his paintings during his transfer.Furthermore, Dali was affected by some elements which appeared in most of his paintings. First, he was affected by the landscape of Catalonia in which he spent his childhood. In most of his paintings we could find the desert of Catalonia, which he sees it as his whole life. Another element could be Gala, who is the person that he adored. Dali drew either a portrait for her or he drew her watching the scene of the picture. The last element was sexuality, which he gained from the Surrealism. He either drew nude women either for enjoying it or, in sometimes, he drew nude persons as a symbol of poverty and slavery. In his picture Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) Dali gathered between all the three elements landscape of Catalonia, Gala, and sexuality which shows how he was strongly affected by them (Biography 1929-1941).In this painting Surreal training had served him well, as its influence was appearing in it. He gained a unique style by integrating Surrealism with everydays life. Dali painted this picture in 1940 in the United States. This work is a real example of Dalis work at that time. In this painting Dali experimented the idea of double imagery, which is any change in the head position is taken as a switch between tow different things in the same painting. In this painting, we could find three examples of double imagery. The first is the switch between the Dutch slave traders and the bust of the French philosopher Voltaire. The faces, collars, and midriffs of the two Dutch merchants become the eyes, nose, and chin of Voltaire. The second one is the switch between the hill near the building at the right and the pear placed in the fruit dish on the table. The last one is the switch between the plum beside the pear and the buttocks of one man standing watching ...
