Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a 20th century Spanish surrealist painter. Surrealism was a movement beginning in the 1920s and included elements of surprise and the unexpected. Dalí's best known work, the paining The Persistence of Memory is definitely unexpected with its depiction of melting clocks. Dalí's work often included symbolism.

Clocks, elephants, and eggs are three images that repeatedly occur in his work as symbolism. The clocks represented in The Persistence of Memory are said to represent the relativity of time and came to him while looking at a piece of melting cheese on a hot day.
While best knows for being a painter, Dalí was also produced works of film, sculpture, and photographs.


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Take a look at more of the works of Dali.  The melting clocks made Dali think of cheese melting on a hot day, what do they make you think of?  How do his other works make you think and feel?
*Photo taken in London, November 2007 and depicts an elephant with long, spindly legs, one of the reoccurring images of symbolism Dali used in his work.