This may be one of the most well-known oil on canvas paintings of the surrealist movement. Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory,” gives an insight into sights that Dali may have seen in his dreams. The melting clocks and strange figures placed in a realistic landscape speak to the relativity of time whilst in the stupor of a dream. The painting suggests that the Earth itself is constant, but the ideas and objects created by man are simply ideas that can be altered. Surrealists like Dali would have argued that the altered ideas are at their best when accessed from the subconscious mind. |
Dali,
S (Artist). 1931. The Persistence of Memory [oil on canvas]. Retrieved from http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/1168-2
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