Millet's Angelus---Masterwork
The Angelus was one of Millet's favorite works. There he rediscovered the sensations of his childhood. He gives us here religious man, superstitious even, in the course of his life and his labors, his humiliations and his hope. As the sun sets, two peasants, a man and a woman, hear the Angelus sound. They stop, stand up, and heads uncovered and eyes bowed, they speak the traditional prayer: Angelus domini nuntiavit Mariae. The man, a true peasant of the fields, his head covered with short straight hair like a felt hat, prays in silence. The bowed woman is lost in meditation. The landscape is one dusted with the light of the setting sun, one of those ends of days that embraces the earth and sky in a deep purple.
Salvador Dali's Angelus---Surreal 
Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus 1933-35. Oil on panel, 31,7 x 39,3 cm. Dali -Museum von St. Petersburg, Florida, gift Reynold Morse
LEGEND In the works of the Surrealist period, Dali treated those elements of disparate appearance with absolute realism which emphasized the proper character of each one of them, making an exact copy from a document, a photograph, or the actual object, as well as using collage.
He increased the effect produced even more through the use of techniques stemming from the precision of Vermeer to the blurred shapes of Carrière.
Once he had given an emotional autonomy to his protagonists he established communication between them by depicting them in space - most often in a landscape - thus creating unity in the canvas by the juxtaposition of objects bearing no relation in an environment where they did not belong.
This spatial obsession derives from the atmosphere of Cadaqués, where the light, due to the color of the sky and of the sea, seems to suspend the course of time and allows the mind through the eye to glide more easily from one point to another.