Light in the sky, on the sea, the seashore, and the rocks. On the contrary, this vivid color renders exactly the effect of the For the person who does not know the region where Dali lives, the violence of the color might seem excessive. A leafless olive tree with its branches cut.Ĥ) The landscape. Hard or soft, what difference does it make! As long as they tell time accurately."ģ) The precise image of ants in the sunshine. Like Soft Self-Portrait With Grilled Bacon, and his one-of-a-kind depictions of not-quite-human faces, like the figure in his painting, Le Sommeil.Ģ) The watches, which he says are:"nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time. This face-like figure is interpreted to be a self-portrait of the artist: Dalí is known for both his unconventional self-portrayals, The Persistence of Memory is an excellent example of the foregoing and contains the following elements:ġ) Perhaps the most confusing element of the scene is an anthropomorphic object laid on the ground. Through the eye to glide more easily from one point to another. This spatial obsession derives from the atmosphere of Cadaques, where the light, due to the color of the sky and of the sea, seems to suspend the course of time and allows the mind Once he had given an emotionalĪutonomy to his protagonists he established communication between them by depicting them in space - most often in a landscape - thus creating unity in the canvas by the juxtaposition of objects bearing no relation in anĮnvironment where they did not belong. These 'paranoid-critical' images reflect Dali's reading and absorption ofįreud's theories of the unconscious and its access to the latent desires and paranoia of the human mind, such as the unconscious fear of death alluded to in this painting,ĭali increased the effect produced even more through the use of techniques stemming from the precision of Johannes Vermeer to the blurred shapes of Carriere. The ants crawling over the pocket watch suggest decoy, an absurd notion given that the watch is metallic. For Dali, these 'soft watches' represent what he called the 'camembert of time', suggesting that the concept of time had lostĪll meaning in the unconscious world. The Persistence of Memory contains a self-portrait over which is draped a 'soft watch'. Surrealist period, Dali treated those elements of disparate appearance with absolute realism which emphasized the proper character of each one of them, making an exact copy from a document, a photograph, or the actual object, They have given birth to heterogeneous elements which he then brings together in his paintings without always knowing why. Dali's demonology owes a great deal to his reveries. A siesta, to him, has always opened the doors of a pre-sleep period, the instant when one forgets To dream is easy for him because of his Mediterranean heritage. The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role inĭali's paintings. This painting was one of the first Dali executed using his 'paranoid-critical' approach in which he depicts his own psychological conflicts and phobias.ĭali had studied psychoanalysis and the works of Sigmund Freud before joining the Surrealists. In The Persistence of Memory, one of his earlier Surrealist works, Dali was influenced by Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which he combined with a Catalan background, a feature of much of The Swallow's Tail - Series of Catastrophes, 1983īefore joining the Surrealist group formally in 1929, Salvador Dali imbued his work with a sense of the fantastic and the extraordinary, personified in the work of the Old Masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and in his own timeīy Giorgio de Chirico.Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, 1976.Discovery of American by Christopher Columbus, 1959.The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954.Rhinocerotic Figure of Phidias's Illisos, 1954.Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951. Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943.
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