The Accommodations of Desire

Salvador Dalì, The Accommodations of Desire, 1929, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Oil on canvas with collage paper

Discuss this painting in pairs

What can you see?

List the objects you can identify.

List adjectives that can be suitable to describe this painting.

How do you feel about it?

Reading activity

Read the text on the official website of the Metropolitan Museum in New York

Exercises

Exercise: Listen to the audio track and fill in the gaps in the following page.

What can you see in the painting? Try this exercise on the web version of the ebook