The Persistance of Memory - Salvador Dali (1931)
Salvador Dali is my favourite artist, simply because his art is so bizarre that it's refreshing for an artist to image the world through his imagination, rather than be restricted by sight. Here we see a dream-like landscape, as the shapes are irregular and the colour vivid and almost "wax-like". There are many symbolizing moments in this painting, which I'll go thorugh...
The most obvious imagery is the melting clocks of course. For me, it signifies the slowing of time, or how it seems to dissolve around us. There's two above seemingly dead objects, such as the dead bark and the strange object on the ground. This is what happens when time eventually catches up with us - a bit of a harrowing conclusion maybe, but it's one that everyone must face.
The cliffs in the background are those that surrounds Dali in real life near his home in Spain, so there is some degree of reality in this bizarre painting. Maybe it's just me, but I find this artwork to be one of his "tamer" work in comparison to some of his wilder counterparts; like the Lobster Telephone for example, or even the Lip Couch, but when I think of Dali I think of this wonderfully weird masterpiece.
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