The Angel // Salvador dali had a significant collection of favoured symbols, melting clocks, chest of drawers, grasshoppers and angels. the surrealist often depicted his wife, as well as his muse Gala, as an angel. Added to this, his obsessive mathematical understandings, he also depicts (as in his own work) an angel symbolising symmetry with emphasis on the notion of androgyny, which he often perceived as his own personal being.

The phantom image and the 'paranoiac-critical- method // The Surrealistsrelated theories of psychology to the idea of creativity and the production of art. One of the types of objects theorized in surrealism was the phantom object. According to Dali, when these objects are viewed the mind evokes phantom images which are the result of unconscious acts.

The aspect of paranoia  that Dali was interested in and which helped inspire the 'paranoiac-critical' method was the ability of the brain to perceive links between things which rationally, are not linked.

Employing the method when creating a work of art uses an active process of the mind to visualize images in the work and incorporate these into the final product. An example of the resulting work is a double image or mulitple image (as in this lithograph), in which an ambiguous image can be interpreted in different ways.