Salvador Dalì, Venus de Milo with drawers, 1936. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Salvador Dali: the drawers as the subconscious. As I was doing my research on Elsa Schiaparelli, I discovered that they were close friends. So, although my knowledge of his pieces is pretty much reserved to his most famous ones, I decided to snoop around. So obviously Dali is associated with surrealism. Even though he made some beautiful landscape paintings inspired by the decor of his home, Spain. 

They say the eyes are the windows of the soul. Windows are an in between the outside and the inside. But what about drawers? Is it painful to open these drawers? Is it painful to look at what's hidden away, lost in your subconscious? I would assume so. Dali paints darkness within the human soul.