The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works of Surrealism. The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí’s theory of “softness” and “hardness”, which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Adès wrote, “The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order”.
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Dimensions: 24 × 33 cm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (since 1934)
Created: 1931
Medium: Oil Paint, Bronze
Period: Surrealism
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