You can see Dali's development towards this masterpiece as you have a look upon a piece he made in 1951.
Depicting an exploding head of Rafaël, a subject he thoroughly studied and beworked.
Other point of view that you might consider the spherical Galatée as an explosion of atoms, as part of Dalí's thoughts of atom mysticism.
The next painting combines an earlier piece , "
The persistence of memory" (
1931), with the idea of exploding atoms.
