Salvador Dalis Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, the most popularly known Surrealist artist, often employed images of time and of clocks in his painting and drawings. One of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory, makes use of several “melting” timepieces that imply the fluidity and ungraspable quality of time. ... “The Persistence of Memory” was completed in 1931 – after WWI and before WWII and the Spanish Civil War. ... The imagery reaches into the unconscious, evoking the seemingly universal human preoccupation with time and memory.