Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Question - 198

This one is an old chestnut but a favorite of mine. Connect the visuals.

Answer: The first is an art piece by Salvador Dali and the second is Death's head Hawkmoth. The poster of the movie Silence of the Lambs shows the death's head moth but with the skull mark replaced by the Dali piece. Mekie, Kr!sh, Rajeev, Adi, Keshav, Anon, Rahul Trivedi, Anshul, Swapnaa, Shweta, Rajesh and Vetti got this one. Well done.

14 comments:

mekie said...

Connect - the Silence of the Lambs

The movie poster features a Death's Head moth with a skull on its head. The skull is actually a Dali portrait of nude women arranged to outline a skull.

kr!sh said...

Silence of the lambs poster. Favorite of mine too.

Anonymous said...

silence of the lambs.

Anonymous said...

The image on the left is from a potrait of Salvador Dali by Philippe Halsman. The second is an image of h Death's-head Hawkmoths used in the posters of Silence of the Lambs. The Hawkmoths have a skull shape on their throats, but those used in Silence of Lamb poster had Halsman skull instead.

Anonymous said...

death head moth. silence of the lambs?

Anonymous said...

silence of the lambs

Rahul Trivedi said...

Moth head - Silence of the Lambs - In Voluptas Mors

AJ said...

Silence of the Lambs

swapnaa said...

Movie posters for The Descent and The Silence Of The Lambs. Both are derived from a photograph by Philippe Halsman in collaboration with Dali based on his "In Voluptas Mors".

The skull made of seven women is quite obvious on the Descent poster, but on the SOTL poster, it is on the Death's Head moth.

Very cool.

swapnaa said...

I always wonder what tattoo I'll get (I know I'm gonna get one!) and I saw this one:
http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/thatcrazyguyjay/dali-skull/zoomed

If I:
* were not as scared as I am of skulls,
* had a greater threshold for pain,
* had biceps large enough to fit that thing,
... and a few ifs later, I'd get that tattooed on my arm! :)

swapnaa said...

Who is Franco? I know! I know! I know!!!

Unknown said...

death's head moth

silence of the lambs

salvador dali potrait

Philippe Halsman

Anonymous said...

Silence of the Lambs poster. The skull picture on the head of the moth was inspired by a Dali portrait.

Anonymous said...

Is it the Deaths head hawkmoth shown in Silence of the lambs. They have a skull shaped marking on their back