Dalí’s Lobster Phone

Dalí’s Lobster Phone, 2006, Lego
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the more flamboyant and well known Surrealist artists¹. Dalí’s Lobster Telephone (Aphrodisiac telephone) (1936), a functional telephone with a lobster as the ear piece, is an iconic Surrealist object. By juxtaposing disparate objects or images to make art that surprises the viewer, the Surrealists hoped to jolt people out of their view of the world and tap into the unconscious. The Little Artists discovered the lobster featured in this sculpture in a Lego Arctic set.
Retrieved from Seed gallery, Newmarket, Auckland's website