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The Persistence of Memory
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This article is about the painting by Salvador Dalí. For the novel by Tony Eprile, see The Persistence of Memory (novel). For the novel by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, see Persistence of Memory.
The Persistence of Memory

Artist
Salvador Dalí
Year
1931
Type
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 cm × 33 cm (9.5 in × 13 in)
LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria;Catalan: La persistència de la memòria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works.
First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1934. It is widelyrecognized and frequently referenced in popular culture.[1]
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1 Description
1.1 Landscape
2 Versions
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
[edit]Description
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.[2] It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Ades wrote, "Thesoft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".[3] This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the softwatches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.[4]
Although fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase, the imagery precedes his transition to his scientific phase by fourteen years, which occurred after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
 External video
 Smarthistory - Dali's The Persistence ofMemory[5]
 Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931[6]
It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work. The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants. Dalíoften used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death.
The figure in the middle of the picture can be read as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition. One can observe that the creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that the creature is also in a dream state. The iconography may refer toa dream that Dalí himself had experienced, and the clocks may symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time in the eyes of the dreamer .
The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques"[7] to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.
[edit]Landscape
The craggy rocks to the rightrepresents a tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia. Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia. The strange and foreboding shadow in the foreground of this painting is a reference to Mount Pani.[8]


























La persistencia de la memoria
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Este artículo está sobre elcuadro de Salvador Dalí. Para la novela de Tony Eprile, consulte la persistencia de la memoria (novela) .En la novela de Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, consulte persistencia de la memoria .
La persistencia de la memoria

Artista
Salvador Dalí
Año
1931
Tipo
Óleo sobre lienzo
Dimensiones
24 cm × 33 cm (9.5 in x 13 in)
Ubicación
Museo de Arte Moderno , Nueva York
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