'The double helix proves the existence of God': art and science in dialogue with Salvador Dali's religious imagination

Authors

• Alan Smith Florida Southern College

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30664/ar.67593

Keywords:

Religious Imagination, Theology and the Arts, Salvador Dali

Abstract

The later artistic work of Salvador Dali demonstrates a dialogue involving new developments in science in the 1940s and 1950s as metaphysical clues to inform his religious imagination and inspire a new era in Dali’s art: nuclear mysticism.