Salvador Dali finished The Persistence of Memory in 1931at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona, Spain and housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934. This painting was a symbol of Dali’s work and defined surrealism, breaking many of the norms previous and unique in its own way. The painting itself reflects a lot on the way Dali viewed a life and giving it a deeper meaning that others may interpret differently. Dali created a three dimensional experience that was never seen before by using colors, lighting and space.
To briefly describe The Persistence of Memory, the oil on canvas painting only measures 24 x 33 cm and it contains a light blue horizon and slowly fades downward from blue to yellow across the top quarter of the painting …show more content…
The painting also has cool colors containing blue, white, and silver working with the warm colors to balance the painting. The colors are saturated and dark to scheme along with the shading work to create a different experience. This painting uses the basic elements of light, shapes, form, and texture in an interesting manner. Most of the painting contains a relatively thin and similar in width lines. Dali makes everything detailed, for example the lines on the mountain are noticeable, and give them a rough realistic. He uses different lengths and widths to create individually in each lash on the white figure, or the watches even show each number on the faces. His use of light, color, shape and space all contribute to his purpose: the subconscious. For example, the strange shapes serve the painting a dreamlike quality. The elements of this painting are all incorporated to serve the purpose of unlocking the inner subconscious of the human mind and to put the viewers into the world of the subconscious, where normal objects are not what they would be in real life and have deep significance. The idea of this painting came from a time when Dali was looking at a plate of cheese during dinner one night, and then he created a provocative image of mysterious objects that contained metaphors for the unleash
To briefly describe The Persistence of Memory, the oil on canvas painting only measures 24 x 33 cm and it contains a light blue horizon and slowly fades downward from blue to yellow across the top quarter of the painting …show more content…
The painting also has cool colors containing blue, white, and silver working with the warm colors to balance the painting. The colors are saturated and dark to scheme along with the shading work to create a different experience. This painting uses the basic elements of light, shapes, form, and texture in an interesting manner. Most of the painting contains a relatively thin and similar in width lines. Dali makes everything detailed, for example the lines on the mountain are noticeable, and give them a rough realistic. He uses different lengths and widths to create individually in each lash on the white figure, or the watches even show each number on the faces. His use of light, color, shape and space all contribute to his purpose: the subconscious. For example, the strange shapes serve the painting a dreamlike quality. The elements of this painting are all incorporated to serve the purpose of unlocking the inner subconscious of the human mind and to put the viewers into the world of the subconscious, where normal objects are not what they would be in real life and have deep significance. The idea of this painting came from a time when Dali was looking at a plate of cheese during dinner one night, and then he created a provocative image of mysterious objects that contained metaphors for the unleash