The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistència de la memòria, Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and some of the recognizable works of Surrealism. The well-identified surrealist piece launched the picture of the comfortable melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's concept of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his considering at the time. As Daybreak Adès wrote, "The smooth watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of house and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a hard and fast cosmic order". This interpretation means that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world launched by Albert Einstein's concept of particular relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was the case, Dalí replied that the mushy watches were not inspired by the idea of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting within the solar.

The 12 months prior to painting the Persistence of Memory, Dali developed his "paranoiac-critical method," deliberately inducing psychotic hallucinations to inspire his artwork. He remarked, "The distinction between a madman and me is that I'm not mad." This quote highlights Dali's consciousness of his mental state. Despite his engagement in actions that might be seen as insane, Dali maintained that he was not actually mad. In the center of the painting, beneath the rightmost clock, is a distorted human face in profile. The monstrous, fleshy creature (with a lot texture close to its face, and much distinction and tone in the image) draped throughout the painting's middle is without delay alien and acquainted. It's an approximation of Dali's personal face, elevating the piece from pure abstraction into one thing of a self-portrait. Comparable creatures seem continuously in Dali's work, most notably resembling a being who seems in his earlier painting The great Masturbator.

The creature seems to have been originally modeled after a figure from the Paradise part of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, which Dalí had studied. It can be learn as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in desires the place the dreamer can't pinpoint the creature's actual kind and composition. The creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that additionally it is in a dream state. The iconography might confer with a dream that Dalí himself had skilled, and the clocks could symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time within the eyes of the dreamer. The orange watch at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants, and does not melt. Its firmness contrasts with the dreamlike mutability of the others, providing a grounded counterpoint in an in any other case warped panorama. The usage of ants to symbolize decay is a recurring theme throughout Dali's artwork. In the 1929 L'amic de les arts published essay entitled The Liberation of Fingers, Dali described seeing a lizard decomposed and eaten by ants when he was three or 4 years previous. Another incident that profoundly affected him as a toddler is recounted in his MemoryWave Guide, The secret of Life. His cousin gave him a wounded bat, which he adored and left in a single day in slightly pail within the wash-house. Next morning a frightful spectacle awaited me. Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. MoMA I Salvador Dalí.

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