All About The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dali
In his autobiographical work The Great Masturbator (1929), the artist explores his own sexual obsessions, worries, and fears. The painting’s focal point is a big amorphous shape that is a deformed self-portrait of the artist: Dali represents himself with his eyes closed and a large grasshopper placed on his mouth. Some of Dali’s other works, such as his masterpiece The Persistence of Memory, also feature self-portraits that are quite similar to this one (1931).