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The Persistence of Memory
In Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory (a.k.a Melting Clocks or Droppy Watches), what is that white thing with the clock on it. It looks like a whale kind of? Anyways, what is it and what is the signifigance of it? Thank yoU!
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Salvador Dali's paintings are amazing, I can look at them for hours on end and not get bored because of the amount of things you can dream up looking at them.
I think the white thing isn't really anything specific. It almost looks like a closed eye (see the black eyelashes?) or a whale/dolphine or maybe even something completely different. Best thing to do might be to try and search around on the net for Dali's fan sites (or maybe even his official site if he has one) where there might be more notes on his artwork and what they represent. I've never really had the chance to go to one of his galleries (that is/was in London at least the last time I had heard about) but I admire his paintings a lot.
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Taken from Wikipedia:
The well-known surrealistic piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It's possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that the same Dalí called the "paranoiac-critical camembert": it's a head (probably a self-portrait of the artist). In general the tree means life, but, in this case, has the same function of the rest of the elements in the picture: to impress anxiety and, in a certain way, terror. The golden cliffs in the upper right hand corner are reminiscent of Dali's homeland, Catalonia.
I'd give the the exact same answer 'cept in worse english (it's not my first lang.)
Anyway, I LOVE answering questions about art and design (since I study it), so if you've more questions about anything art/design related, drop a message in my inbox!
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