The persistence of the memory

By Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí

Salvador Dalí was painter, sculptor, engraver and writer, he was considerate as one of the most popular representatives of surrealism, also he was a famous painter of century 20, in all his painting he showed a lot of ideas during his life known like pass of the time or the immortality and one of his most representative piece was: “The persistence of the memory”.

The persistence of the memory was painted in 1931, it represent a coast envelope of clocks melt and in his painting also he showed work surrealism, it was characterized by strange images. Inside of the art, the surrealism signify talk about of unconscious that have in each man, in here each character or object that is painting recognize the surrealism and Dali always tried to showed in his pictures the real life.

Dali in his picture of persistence of the memory showed that the time endure like stone, then in the picture not important just the clocks that we can see, if not also all the scenery that is surrounded the clocks, by there he painted the stones and the clocks to show that the time endure with the life.

Dali painted tree different clocks and the hours are different, he explained that he painted one tense clock where it didn’t show the time and the other two clocks are smooth and it showed different hours, because the time is personal and also that the clocks was the representation of the memory that in one moment it finish. Also in this paint he showed a face under one of the clocks and he explained that he was involved in his mortality.

I like this picture, because is interesting the manner that the author painted the clocks and all the scenery, also I think that the time in our life is important and all the things that we make, is impact how in this picture we can see that the time undertake with each person. Also, I like how by this clocks the painter try to show us that our thoughts, our concepts and our science it’ll be finish by the time or for something, for create new concepts, new science and it erase the memory, because we must to know that with the pass of the time, maybe our memory will be erase, the reason is because we don’t live of the past, cause in some moment it’ll be erase and the time will be finish. Finally, I can say that the time is gold, because if we don’t live the moment that we pass with the time it never come back and it finish, so with this picture we must to have in considerate that not is life if we live with the moments that It has passed for it I think that we should to use the moment in our life.

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By: Norma Estrada Mendoza