Morphological Echo (1934-36) by Salvador Dali and the Golden Rectangle

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (Morphological Echo by Salvador Dali).

Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

Morphological Echo, 1934-36. This work was painted between 1934 and 1936 and measures 64 x 54 cm. It depicts a seemingly minimal architectural setting with several surrealist images in its finer details. In the distance is a wall housing a bell resembling the figure of a woman in bundled skirts. In the distance towards the center is a strangely eroded rock form.

This painting is displayed at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida on loan from the E. and A. Reynolds Morse collection.

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A golden rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is, with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
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