After leaving the United States, Dali entered into his Classical phase, a period of work unlike any other in his lifetime. His paintings, rather than evoking the emotions that he felt in his everyday life, began to take on the shape of his own version of history paintings. He created many different works that, when created by anyone else, would have spoken of religion or culture through the icons represented in them. Dali, however, made them his own by combining his dream-like reality with the historical past. Instead of conveying the traditional feelings that a painting would, he makes the viewer question what the image says. His depictions of scenes such as the last supper are his own take on the event, rather than allowing the viewer to see what s/he expects to see in a history painting.