Salvador Dalí's The Great Masturbator is a deeply personal Surrealist self-portrait housed at the Reina Sofía in Madrid, measuring 110 x 150 cm. Created in 1929, it features a giant face-like form, grasshoppers, and ants, symbolizing Dalí's childhood anxieties—reportedly over 20 identifiable symbols draw from his biography. It is more intimate than #7 El Greco's View of Toledo, using figurative details rather than landscape to convey inner turmoil. This painting includes a precise 8% of Dalí's total known symbolic motifs, making it a dense psychological map.
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