You can draw a diagonal line between the shadowed place and the lit areas of this painting. Here we can see the difference between soft (uncertain) and hard (certain) objects. Whereas, the mountains and the water are lit by sunlight. Note that the ants, the three melted clocks and a foetus-like object all reside in the shade as well.
The rock to the left is in the shadow, and the one to the right is lit. There are two tiny rocks sitting in the sand on the beach in the background. By doing this Dali not only opened the doors for discussion of multiple interpretations of his art, but also made criticizing his work nearly impossible for people he thought who possessed lesser intellect than that of himself.Īnother peculiar detail that perhaps is not easy to spot at first glance is the way Dali uses light to communicate ideas of this painting. The Camembert is an example of just that. But remember that Dali would often make up ridiculous explanations for his paintings to purposely mislead people. Perhaps the images of the melting clocks are nothing more than ideas influenced by the Camembert cheese left for too long of a period of time on the table on a warm sunny day, as Dali had previously described his inspiration for this painting. The Persistence of Memory may have many interpretations. The ants seem to have found a point of interest in the centre of the orange watch. The only watch whose structure doesn’t appear to be malformed (unlike other watches it is orange in colour) is sitting on a desk-like object. There are four watches in this painting, three of which appear to be molten, as if made out of cheese. The original title of this painting is “La persistencia de la memoria” and it depicts a foetus-like head lying on the ground, like a fish that was washed ashore and now decaying after a lost struggle gasping for air. The Persistence of Memory is a painting by the famous Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
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