"The Meditative Rose" (1958) by Salvador Dalí, limited reproduction

In his pictures, Dalí grabbed old mythological relationships. In Greek mythology, the goddess of love, Aphrodite, was born with a white rose bush from the foam of the sea. The rose only received the red color from Aphrodite's adultery with the beautiful Adonis. On the way to her dying lover, Aphrodite stepped in rose ports and colored the white roses red with her blood. So the white rose stands for the purity of love, while red roses symbolize desire and passion. But the symbol of the rose stands not only for love, but also for confidentiality. "Sub pink", ie "under the rose", was said in the Middle Ages if you wanted to say something in secret. So the rose became the sign of secret associations and the riddle - it is not coincidental so the rose hovers over Dalí's world ...