In the work it can be seen that each clock has its own characteristic. While in the axis of the painting there is a very strange anthropomorphic figure that many say is part of the face of the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. There is also a wooden block that acts as a table where there are two clocks and a tree where a clock hangs that seems to melt. That was very common in the works of the painter. On the right side there is a cliff that many associate with a landscape of the Costa Brava. In the small work of the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí known as The Persistence of Memory a simple landscape is observed that in the background of the work the sea is seen merging with the sky. Although all the elements that make up The Persistence of Memory they are set on what seems to be a deserted beach, where the sea and the sky seem to merge. In addition, the figure is asleep since its eye is closed and it has long eyelashes.Ībove the anthropomorphic figure is another clock that is melting or seems to be slipping away. In the center of the work The Persistence of Memory The surrealist painter Salvador Dalí painted an anthropomorphic figure that is at the same time very strange since it simulates having a soft head and the neck of this figure fades into the darkness, it seems to have a large nose and a tongue protrudes from it. This resource used by surrealist painters was a very creative contribution to art. In order to have new ways of representing them in works of art and to be able to attract the attention of the public. That is why they came to affirm that painting was in decline.īut what the avant-garde painters did with painting was to deform objects and take them out of context. In this way the ants were an object that he despised under his realistic gaze.Īt the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century, art specialists claimed that photography was going to take the place of painting in art, since photography could take scenes from nature where painting could not. The surrealist painter does not like ants since for him they were a symbol of putrefaction in the works he made. In the paint The Persistence of Memory there is a clock that is not melting, but it is overturned and there are many ants on it. Therefore, when the clocks are melting, they provoke a great surprise in the public, who, when observing the work, incite them to reflect on the clock and the function they have in the painting. The clocks that represents the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in the work The Persistence of Memory they are going to suggest that pointers mark a distorted notion of seconds. In which there are two clocks, one is melting, this represents for the surrealist painter that time is passing differently for people.Ĭontrary to common watches that are worn daily and accurately mark the hour, minute and second. Where it represents Cape Creus and the steep coast at the bottom of the painting.Īt the top left of the box The Persistence of Memory the painter Salvador Dalí made a block that can be made of cardboard that seems to be woven by hand. It is reported that the frame The Persistence of Memory It is a very simple marine landscape typical of Daliano's Cadaqués. The painting made by the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, was made at home in less than five hours, since the work has small dimensions, although it is said that the painting was made on a day when the famous surrealist painter did not want to go out with his wife and friends to the movies and decided to stay home to paint the work.
Work that is in the Salvador Dalí Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Although in the year 1954 the painter Salvador Dalí returned to being a revision of the painting which he called The disintegration of the persistence of memory. The work arrived at the museum in the year 1934. The work caused a stir among the public that the following year The Persistence of Memory it was already in an exhibition in New York exactly at the Julien Levy Gallery.Ĭurrently the frame The Persistence of Memory, is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York better known as the MoMA Museum. Between June 03 to June 15 of the year 1931. As one of the first individual exhibitions of him. Salvador Dalí's small work was exhibited at the Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris. It is a surrealist work that is also known as The soft clocks o The melted clocks. It is a painting made by the painter of Spanish origin Salvador Dalí, in the year 1931, the painting measures 24 x 33 centimeters.
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