ABSTRACT
An examination of Angel Planells’ paintings, drawings, and literary texts points out that the moon is the astronomical element that he is most interested in. Numerous articles ponder about the possible existence of extraterrestrial life, a thought that appears to have captured Planells’ imagination and impacted his portrayal of aliens. Planells wrote several versions of the poem that appears on the reverse of the canvas of Moon of Sleep. Planells’ aquatint shows a moon crowned by a relatively enormous bird whose wings are a sort of hybrid between the wings of a bat and the pincers of a crab. An analysis of Planells’ lunar images also unveils an inclination to portray shadows on the surface of the moon. In Planells’ surrealist oeuvre, the Sun and the moon may not have a gravitational pull anymore or at the very least the laws of nature that once dictated their functioning have been defied.
