Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain and began making art at a young age. After studying in Madrid he eventually moved on to Paris where he became acquainted with Picasso, Magritte, and Miro. Though he worked with impressionist, futuristic, and cubist styles, Dalí is perhaps most known for his surrealist works. Though he was expelled from the surrealist movement, potentially for his fascist leanings, Dalí’s paintings continued to show surrealist themes. One such painting is his 1954 painting Corpus Hypercubus also known as Crucifixion. In this painting, Dalí unifies ideas of religion and science through the application of Nuclear Mysticism: the fusion of mathematics, science, and Catholicism.
