In which there are two clocks, one is melting, this represents for the surrealist painter that time is passing differently for people.Ĭontrary to common watches that are worn daily and accurately mark the hour, minute and second. Where it represents Cape Creus and the steep coast at the bottom of the painting.Īt the top left of the box The Persistence of Memory the painter Salvador Dalí made a block that can be made of cardboard that seems to be woven by hand. It is reported that the frame The Persistence of Memory It is a very simple marine landscape typical of Daliano's Cadaqués. The painting made by the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, was made at home in less than five hours, since the work has small dimensions, although it is said that the painting was made on a day when the famous surrealist painter did not want to go out with his wife and friends to the movies and decided to stay home to paint the work. Work that is in the Salvador Dalí Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Although in the year 1954 the painter Salvador Dalí returned to being a revision of the painting which he called The disintegration of the persistence of memory. The work arrived at the museum in the year 1934. The work caused a stir among the public that the following year The Persistence of Memory it was already in an exhibition in New York exactly at the Julien Levy Gallery.Ĭurrently the frame The Persistence of Memory, is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York better known as the MoMA Museum.

Between June 03 to June 15 of the year 1931. As one of the first individual exhibitions of him. Salvador Dalí's small work was exhibited at the Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris. It is a surrealist work that is also known as The soft clocks o The melted clocks. It is a painting made by the painter of Spanish origin Salvador Dalí, in the year 1931, the painting measures 24 x 33 centimeters.

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