Hello, Dali

The Persistence of Memory (1931)

     Salvador Dali was the most famous of the surrealist painters. People often asked him the real meaning behind his art.
     «How do you expect to understand my paintings when I don't understand any of them myself?» he would answer. Because Dali «was a surrealist, he didn't believe that a work of art should be easily understood. In his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory, Dali uses symbols and shapes to make the painting's viewer feel a certain mood.
   Because Dali trusted his dreams more than the objects he saw around him, his paintings are filled with symbols from his dreams. For example, in Persistence of Memory, ants might simbolize his fear of insects, and the closed eyelid on the ground could simbolize dreaming, one of the most important sources of ideas for surrealists.
LEONARD, Jennifer - "Dreamning with the surrealists", in Highlights for children (1994).

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi

Gold, frankincense and myrrh were the gifts the Magi, also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men, (Three) Kings, or Kings from the East, offered Jesus, when he was born.

"Annunciation" Paula Rego, 2002

Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem for the census

This is the Tesse tree.

This Church art shows the relationship of Jesus with Jesse and other biblical names. This design shows a branched tree growing from a reclining figure of Jesse. The various branches have pictures of other Old and New Testament figures who were ancestors of Jesus. At the top of the tree there are figures of Mary and Jesus.

Jesse was the father of the great King David of the Old Testament. He is the first person mentioned in St. Matthew’s gospel outlining the genealogy of Jesus.