The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí

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The Persistence of Memory is used as the topic of a SOUND ART~!!
Although it's only a picture, but it really stimulates my emotion of fear! GooooooooD~!!!



[Source: Salvador Dalí - La persistencia de la memoria - Sound art by andanzza]

The Persistence of Memory

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The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dalí, 1931
oil on canvas
24 × 33 cm, 9.4 × 13 in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The well-known surrealistic piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of 'softness' and 'hardness', which was central to his thinking at the time.

It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces to represent himself - the abstract form becoming something of a self portrait, reappearing frequently in his work.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Salvador Dali is a surrealism (超現實主義) artist, he gets the inspiration from a soft cheess, he overthrows the truth of realistic, clock is supposed to be a hard object, but it is turned to a soft chip under his creation. Have you ever thought of that, if the clock is a soft chip, how could it work?? There are totally four clocks in his painting, what are the meanings?

1. The clock could hang on a tree which is growing on a table, he bring us to explore the "time" in his subconscious.
2. This clock is hanging on the table, almost slips down from the table. If you see it detailly, there is a fly on the clock, it means the time "fly" away.
3. There is a group of ants covers the clock, it symbols that the time is eatten gradully, it gives us a sense of deterioration of life.
4. In the isolated desert, there is a lonely distort person, Salvador Dali himself is melting under the hot weather.

Refferences and further readings:

The Persistence of Memory,from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Salvador Dali Paintings, from ArtQuotes.net

陳彬彬, (2008), 從零開始圖解西洋名畫, 台灣:晨星出版有限公司