The Great Masturbator — Salvador Dalí

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. This painting includes a precise 8% of Dalí's total known symbolic motifs, making it a dense psychological map.