*Shades of Night Descending' shows a brooding atmosphere dominating the foreground, heightened by its contrast to the luminous beach scene in the background. Lengthening shadows announce the approach of the formless night; the silence of the work is disquieting. Moreover, Dali has invested the mystery and the melancholy further into the personalized focus. Shades of Night Descending is organized by an opposition: the opposition between the idyllic past, in the background of the work, and the anxieties of the present, in the foreground the pleasures of the far contrasted with the pain of the near. *Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - A Spanish artist renowned for 'surrealism', cubism, futurism, technical skill, precise draftsmanship, striking & bizarre images in his work. Major themes in his work include dream sequences, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. He used this method to realize the dreams and imagination he had in his mind, changing the real world the way he wanted and not necessarily what it was. Dal�'s artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design, photography, fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism.