Blaze smith

The Persistence of Memory

Blaze smith

Salvador Dali was born in Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech on may 11,

1904. One of Salvador famous paintings is The persistence of memory. It's odd

because it has 3 clocks melting in the paintings. People thought that the three clocks

was one of Einsteins theory of Relativity. He said it look like a wheel of camembert of

cheese that had melted. Salvador Dal frequently described his Paintings as hand

painted dream photographs. He based this seaside Landscape on the cliffs in his home

region of Catalonia, Spain.

Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the

swarming ants. Mastering what he called the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,

Dal painted this work with the most imperialist fury of precision, but only, he said, to

systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality. There

is, however, a nod to the real: the distant golden cliffs are those on the coast of

Catalonia, Dals home.