![]() In general, the painting is based on the early 20th-century surrealism movement whose members ridiculed the French middle-class who were seen as taking life “too seriously. ![]() Propagators of this theory also see the distorted weird figure in the middle of the painting as a depiction of a monster as it appears in dreams (or nightmares). Other scholars believe that the painting shows a person’s state of dreaming with the clocks showing the sense of the suspension of time that one feels while dreaming. Another explanation behind the painting is that Dali was trying to portray the relativity of time and space as explained in Einstein’s theory of special relativity using the distorted pocket clocks. One explanation states that the painter was trying to express his life using the painting with the melting clocks used to represent his diminishing youth (Salvador was 27 years old when he painted the Persistence of Memory) while the empty landscape and dead twig represent the feeling of emptiness he felt at the time. Over the past decades, scholars have come up with numerous explanations behind the painting. The Persistence of Memory, like many other paintings inspired by the surrealistic movement, has unrealistic features which are used to elicit critical thinking. The painting was later moved to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City after an anonymous donor donated the piece of art to the museum. The Persistence of Memory was first exhibited in 1932 at the Julien Levy Gallery. In the painting’s background, the artist depicts a clear blue sky without clouds. Another pocket clock is cast on a strange figure which resembles a resting or dead monster. One pocket clock hangs on a dry twig with another covered in ants. These pocket clocks are depicted as if they are melting. The primary subject of The Persistence of Memory is four pocket clocks scattered on the painting’s foreground. In the painting, the beach is cast on the background and shows a peninsula or a large rock outcrop. The painting, like many others of Salvador Dali’s paintings, depicts a beach in his homeland, Catalonia. Read explores their personal and professional relationship from 1905, when they first met, until the poets death in 1918. From the very beginning, they engaged in a creative dialogue that led them to create some of their finest works. The Persistence of Memory is an oil painting done on a canvas measuring 9.5 inches by 13 inches. It is no exaggeration to say that Picasso and Apollinaire basically invented modern aesthetics.
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