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| Exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1931 credit here |
Opinion: I remember seeing this picture by Dali everyday for two years in Mr. Hyne’s class. During out unit on art, he always covered the surrealist movement and showed us this picture. Initially, the Persistence of Memory is what interested me in art history.
Theory: The Persistence of Memory was a product of the surrealist movement. It is a dreamscape of sorts with recognizable shapes that have metamorphosed into a dream or a nightmare. Dali created a barren space where time has ended. An amorphous creature sleeps in the foreground and is draped with one of the limp watches (another hangs on a tree). A time- keeping piece is swarming with ants while a fly alights on one of the limp pocket watches. It seems to suggest that time is dead or has gone bad and is therefore decaying (Gardner, Page 1040).
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