Emphasis Preaching Journal

It's like Salvador Dali came into the gospel and painted a story -- Salvador Dali, of the dripping clocks and other surreal paintings. On one level, Dali's paintings seem comical, absurd even. The subjects are ridiculous -- clocks melting in the sun, faces floating like balloons, trees shaped like heads, characters twisted into impossible contortions. But on another level, the images are disturbing -- maybe terrifying. The grotesqueness of the figures unsettles something inside the viewer. These things are absurd but in the way that Tales from the Crypt might be absurd. You go home with an uneasy feeling in the middle of your stomach and it takes you a little longer to fall asleep at night.