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The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches".
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Adès wrote, "The soft 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". This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun.
The year prior to painting the Persistence of Memory, Dali developed his "paranoiac-critical method," deliberately inducing psychotic hallucinations to inspire his art. He remarked, "The difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad." This quote highlights Dali's awareness of his mental state. Despite his engagement in activities that could be seen as insane, Dali maintained that he was not actually mad.
It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" (with much texture near its face, and much contrast and tone in the picture) that Dalí used in several contemporary pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work. The creature seems to be based on a figure from the Paradise section of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, which Dalí had studied. It 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. The creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that it is also in a dream state. The iconography may refer to a 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 orange watch at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants; Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol of decay. A fly sits on the watch next to the orange watch. The fly appears to be casting a human shadow as the sun hits it. The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques" to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.
The craggy rocks to the right represent the 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 Puig Pení, a mountain in the northeast corner of Catalonia.
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Sliders Sunday details:
- cloned out all the power, telephone, etc. wires to disconnect the house from reality
- bumped saturation way up for more unreal-ness
- shot and isolated pocket watch
- used "color replace" to get that freaky teal colour on the watch face
- used "liquify" to melt the watch
- isolated crow from a previous capture
- used liquify to pull part of him way to the left, then used the circle tool to capture the pulled-out part, and applied the "twirl" filter.
- the girl (me, at four years old) was an easy paste at reduced opacity -- then just erased to reveal the red window details.
I see that the light source on the crow is completely opposite to the light source in the house photo. LOL Does that add to the surreal effect, or just show off my sloppy photoshop skills? :D
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domènech (1904-1989) - hiszpański malarz, jeden z najbardziej znanych surrealistów.
Mural przedstawia portret malarza oraz charakterystyczne motywy z jego 2 obrazów, zegary z obrazu „Trwałość pamięci” (1931) oraz maszerujące słonie z obrazu „Karawana” (1944).
Autor Muralu Dawid Chmielecki „Warty”, pomysł Michał Janosik z Pracowni Barberskiej.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domènech (1904-1989) - Spanish painter, one of the most famous surrealists.
The mural depicts a portrait of the painter and characteristic motifs from his 2 paintings, clocks from the painting "The Persistence of Memory" (1931) and marching elephants from the painting "Caravan" (1944).
The author of the Mural Dawid Chmielecki "Warta", idea Michał Janosik from the barber shop.
With apologies to Salvador Dali. The background scene was photographed in Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park. The clock was photographed in Heber City, Utah, USA, then liquified with Photoshop.
Towards the end of Winter in northern Europe all that remains from the landscape is organized structure.
A mural, in an alley just off Ave. du Parc, Montreal. I guess the melting watch is a reference to `the persistence of memory` by Dali?
Dans son autobiographie, La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali, l’auteur explique qu’un soir, ayant fini son repas par un camembert coulant, il s’est intéressé «aux problèmes posés par le «super mou»
Dali annule la fonction première d’une montre qui est d’indiquer l’heure et de voir l’écoulement du temps.
Elles symbolisent donc l’inutilité de mesurer le temps.
Dali suggère de se libérer des contraintes matérielles et de la rigidité du monde en se libérant du temps qui passe.
Sans montre, le temps devient éternel et tout devient possible
comme dans les rêves.
But is your life the one that feels like a ticking clock? - TFL
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Dali is undoubtedly the greatest surrealist artist the world has produced. This is considered one of his greatest masterpieces. I met him once and shook his hand. It was a great honor.
iPhone version, with apologies to Salvador Dali
The result of a printing experiment that did not quite work out. The ink did not adhere to the substrate.
Daily #Art - Day 04-07-19
(2019) Persistence of Billie Holiday
Here's a tribute to iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday (Apr 7, 1915 - Jul 17, 1959), with a portrait of her mixed with surreal art inspired by Salvador Dali's famous melted clock from Persistence of Memory (1931), plus Little II the white cat.
(#15,564 / #154 / #55)
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"Persistence of Memory" is a bronze sculpture by artist Salvador Dali. His use of the melting clocks represent "an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".
Dali has said that the inspiration for the soft watches was not by the theory of relativity as some have suggested, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.
Dali's sculptures were on display on the South Bank of the River Thames in London until early 2010.
Photographed spring 2008.
A bottle of coke seen through a bottle of coke and its condensation droplets. The one, apparently flowing droplet reminded me of Salvador Dali's flowing time in the #PersistenceOfMemory.
OMG, I made this really complicated...
Bronze - 1980
L'Espace Dali is an art museum in Paris, France. Dedicated to the work of the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, the museum contains many of his drawings, cartoons, and sculptures as well as a few of his paintings.
Located just off the top of the Butte Montmartre at 11, rue Poulbot, the two-floor museum provides a detailed look into the creative process that produced some of Dalí's most famous works.
My sincerest apologies and credit to Salvador Dali on his painting entitled, "The Persistence of Memory" as it was the inspiration for me to capture this image. Hopefully this is the last of the snow until next season, as it just seems to want to linger forever. As I looked out on our patio today, I saw the remainder of our last snow fall slowly sliding off the edge of this side table, and couldn't stop thinking of the melting pocket watches, so I knew I had to get the image before it melted and broke away.
It's kinda hoaky, but it made me smile, and I hope it makes you smile too!
The question I have is should I do post and make it look more diffused, maybe a little gritty to be more reflective of the actual painting? Thoughts?
Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali painted this work in 1977 when he was in his seventies, and the soft monster shown on the left recalls the monster he painted 40 years earlier in 'The Persistence of Memory'. This work, however, has a much more religious tone, and was created after Dali embraced spirituality in the later part of his life. It was gifted by King Juan Carlos of Spain to the Vatican in 1980, and is today shown in the Vatican Museums' Gallery of Modern Art.
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm)
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí 1931
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
11 West 53 Street - New York, NY 10019-5497
Dali would be proud.
Strobist:
1 sb600 camera right, about 6 ft' high, 1/8 power, bare, into 43'' reflective umbrella.
Triggered with Cactus V4s
Dalí Universe is a permanent exhibition of works by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí which is housed in a 3,000 square metre (32,000 square feet) suite of galleries at County Hall. Opened in 2000, it displays over 500 works, including sculptures dating from 1935-1984, drawings, lithographs, gold and glass objects and a Dalí-inspired furniture collection, but no major paintings. The exhibition was originally curated by Beniamino Levi, who worked with Dalí on the development of his sculptures. Technically Dalí Universe is an exhibit at the County Hall Gallery, which also stages other art exhibitions, but it is much better known under its own name.
This sculpture of Dalí's most famous painting, "Persistence of Memory" (1931), stands outside County Hall along the bank of the River Thames. The painting has also been popularly known as Soft Watches, Droopy Watches, or Melting Clocks. It is currently displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, where it has been since 1934.
Just having fun w/ the short DOF of the 35/1.4 wide open. Bonnie's old Minnie Mouse clock seemed as good a subject as any.
View large to see the clock hand and red rim popping out from the background. Pay no attention to the dust.
Daily #Art - Day 04-07-19
(2019) Persistence of Billie Holiday
Here's a tribute to iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday (Apr 7, 1915 - Jul 17, 1959), with a portrait of her mixed with surreal art inspired by Salvador Dali's famous melted clock from Persistence of Memory (1931), plus Little II the white cat.
(#15,564 / #154 / #55)
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Today the Hereios of the We're Here! group are shooting chocolate cake.
The cake was on sale in the KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) department store in Berlin. It wasn't melting when I saw it.
Dali: The Vision of Genius, presented by Galerie Elysees, was on display at the Time Warner Center from November 3, 2010 to April 30, 2011. The exhibition featured sixteen sculptures and over forty original drawings by Dali, who called New York home during his most fertile period, from 1939 to 1948.
Persistence of Memory was first conceived and cast in 1980. The mold was created and approved during Dali's lifetime. This bronze casting was cast in 2000 at Perseo SA Foundry.
In this piece, Dali has isolated the central image of of his best-known painting and given it the same title. It is a simple figure: a limp watch draped over the branch of a dead tree. Dalinean time is not rigid; it is one with space...fluid. The unexpected softness of the watch also represents the psychological fact that the speed of time, while precise in scientific use, is widely variable in human perception. When we are involved in pleasant activities or in work that absorbs all our attention, 'time flies', but when we are mired in boredom or discomfort, it drags. The limp watch no longer 'keeps' time; it does not measure its passage. Thus, the speed of our time depends only on us.
Hey, if Vincent Van Gogh can paint exploding Tardises, then Salvador Dali can paint a melting Tardis.
This is another sculpture by Salvador Dali, one that borrows from his most famous theme, the melting clocks (or soft watches). Interestingly, this bronze bears the same title as his most famous painting (Persistence of Memory), which he produced in 1931. There is no doubt that these pieces (the bronze as well as the painting) symbolize the element of time, but I found it very interesting to read about the various interpretations of so-called art experts and critiques on what Dali really tried to portray with these works of art, especially the painting (reproduced below). Try page 5 of this document .
I wanted to call this photo Persistence of Memory, because that feels like the right title for it. I'm pretty sure it isn't, though. I like the image a lot for its murky, precise stillness.
I love this Snail! I've created the shell using similar colours to the painting, The Persistence of Memory, and then there are a couple of mishapen clock faces draped carefully over the shell. And don't forget the natty 'tache :)
During our visit to the Dali Museum (One Dali Blvd., St. Petersburg), I took photos of some of the oil paintings on display. This work is titled The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.
A few details on this painting according to the museum's website:
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dalí
1952-54
Oil on canvas
This painting features one of Dali's most popular images, the melting watch. In 1931, Dali painted his first melting watch. He said he was inspired one hot day while working in his studio when he noticed some runny Camembert cheese.
To Dali, the oozing cheese resembled a melting watch, so immediately he painted three melting watches on his canvas, capturing the public’s imagination for succeeding generations.
It is not clear why these melting watches are so startling and memorable, but they do suggest several powerful associations. They illustrate how time can be fluid, as in a dream. But a more essential and threatening association concerns our dependence upon clocks. The world runs by the clock – scheduling events is essential for life to function normally. If clocks melt, time becomes meaningless, and there is no way to control activities, leading to chaos.
Looking across the painting, what do you see? There are several images suggesting chaos, including the ocean fragmenting into atomic bits, its skin-like edge lifted to reveal a fish fluorescing. Yet there are other images that suggest continuity as well, particularly in the details of Dali's beloved Port Lligat landscape. Other questions arise – is the image disintegrating, or is it an expression of continuity? Is time interrupted, or is it fluid and elastic? Looking beneath the ocean's surface, do you discover disintegration or order? Dali leaves the answers to the viewer.
"Nobility of Time" is a bronze piece by the great surrealist Salvador Dali. It is made between 1977 and 1984 in Switzerland. The melted watch is crowned to symbolize the omnipresence of time. It is one of only two existing copies in the world; the other is displayed at London City Hall."
(But you can find millions of 'other' copies in any Shanghai marketplace) :)
Hope it's not a problem that these have to be viewed from a certain angle. It's kinda fun to have it in hand and move it around to see how the image changes when not looking at it correct.
Scale : 1.25"
This is my "2D drawing on a 3D object" thing again. After sudden inspiration at the Salvador Dali Museum in St Petersburg last weekend, I finally settled on a subject for my "I Got Wood" project.
So.... What this is is a 1.25" cube of (poplar?) wood. I used ink, charcoal, pencil and watercolor to complete this. Both images are from Salvador Dali's painting, The Persistence of Memory. They aren't exact, but when working with a 1.25" canvas, you have to cut me some slack!
I kept holding on the the cube for weeks, not knowing what I was going to do, when last night it hit me to do this. I'm pretty happy with it. The funny thing is, I spent 3/4 of the time on the melting clock, and didn't really plan the back portion, but I almost like the back best! I think it's just the colors...
Somebody painted Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Memory" on a garage door! Chapeau!!! Sofia, Bulgaria 2006
De nacionalidade espanhola, Salvador Dalí foi um artista de idéias conntra-revolucionárias que surpreendeu o mundo com seus temas extravagantes e marcou a história da arte do século XX..
No Centre Georges Pompidou em Paris, uma exposição em torno deste grande artista surrealista. Essa exposição, consagrada ao universo da pintura, escultura e cenário surrealista espanhol, convidou todos a descobrir as obras de Dali, conhecidas ou desconhecidas do grande público.
Na programação dessa grande retrospectiva, os visitantes puderam ver os grandes ícones pintados pelo artista, como “A Persistência da Memória”, conservados no MoMA em Nova Iorque.
(21 novembro 2012 a 26 março 2013)
1931.
We were on the way out with two tired, cranky kids, but I had to stop and get a (crappy) hasty shot of this famous piece by my Surrealist hero.
There were two very annoying airheads standing in front of us practically nose-to-glass, blocking everyone else's view while they giggled and whispered to each other. I had to rather heroically restrain myself from knocking their empty heads together so I could get the photo and move on out the door before the kids had twin seizures.