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The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí which is one of his most identifiable works The large creature in the center of Dali's painting might have been drawn from his imagination because there is no creature on this planet has those looks This painting is based on seaside landscape on the cliffs the melting clocks in the background seems to have a great meaning towards them The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants Time is the theme in this painting bases in this painting When analysing the painting carefully and deeply the great meaning will be discovered This painting looks like a dream world and this dream world has great significance behind it The clocks seem to have lost power As time passes our memories fade away the persistence of time in the dreamer's eyes If The Persistence of Memory describes a dream state clocks that melt and distort symbolize the erratic passage of time that we experience while we dream Daydreaming also is related by the passing of time on the amount of time we spent daydreaming about memories or even ones that had deeply hurted us Memories that created scars and memories that can not be forgotten when we want to forget Surrealism is a 20th century avant garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images With the best visual representation of what it is that the dream was one of the main goals of the Surrealists At first Surrealism may seem a little crazy but we had all dreams where people places or things were not connected together in ways that could not be fully explained Understanding that the perpetuation of memory most likely portrays the state of the dream is the first part of the sense out of this painting The lines on the mountains are clear and give them a rough and realistic approach
