Salvador_Dali

Salvador Dali Paintings in the surrealism period are difficult to interpret. Critics have stated that it is nearly impossible to explain in rational language what the significance of a surrealist piece of work is because seems to have been conceived in a state of hallucination. In Salvador Dali’s work, The Persistence of Memory, one can assume just that. This painting consists of relatively awkward images in a setting that is outside in a fairly barren landscape. Yellows and blues are in the sky that meets up with a body of water and a cliff in the background. The main focus would be the three limp watches. One is on a branch of a dead tree, another that seems to be sliding off the side of a box of some kind, and the last one looks to be resting on what could be a rock at first glimpse. After looking more and reading about this painting, I have learned that what I once thought was a rock, is actually a “profiled self-portrait—a motif that [Salvador Dali] frequently featured in his works” (Fiero 861). If you look closely, you can see an eye closed with eyelashes, a nose, and an eyebrow. Also, you can see dali, salvador, painting, work, one, dream, wanted, viewer, title, side, persistence, never, memory, limp, kind, interpretation, fiero, believe, 861, whether, watch, time, something, sliding, seems, saw, said, rock, right, rather, piece, off, meant, look, interpret, images