Dalí once said “nothing is more stimulating than the idea of an angel!”. The face and trumpet in the sculpture, echo the Cubist style pioneered by Pablo Picasso, who Dalí admired. It is interesting that Cubism and Surrealism co-exist in this sculpture.

From the 1940’s, when Dalí began weaving strong religious themes into his artworks, angles appear frequently in his oeuvre. Dalí rejected his family’s Catholicism early in life, only to re-embrace it again in later years. For Dalí, angles represented divine awareness, purity, protection and illumination. The key element of the sculpture is the trumpet, it links heaven and earth, bringing and reflecting divine light. The angel’s wings are in perfect equilibrium, referencing Dalí’s obsession with geometrical precision. The sculpture embodies Dalí’s idea of heavenly achievement and aspiration.