The Smoker || Juan Gris

The Smoker by Juan Gris (1887 - 1927)

Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius || Eugène Delacroix

Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

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There's something about the inner levels of photographs that may capture the living moment of an image. You may see the expression of the people, the ambience of the day, the mood of the moment, but when the photographs of our mind is trasferred on a canvas and with this includes the interpretation of the artist, things start to be different. You then experience a certain kind of qualia with the artist's point of view, emotion, and experience. And if you can trust your own feelings, you can imagine how it is like to be in that moment, to be someone experiencing such a life and such a loss.

The Persistence of Memory || Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

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It's a very unique image that Dali became famously known for. I, too, fund it very amusing although I'd like to look at this painting at how most critics would look at it and how I see it with qualia.

Surrealism deals with the subconscious dreams and thoughts that we have and paint them with such feeling and creative image of how people outside would look at it. This becomes a tool with the use of objective shapes that we see in painting. In this way, we either try to communicate how our what our subconscious thoughts are through images or merely let people try to understand who we are.