We are shown decay through the corpse on the ground and the ants over the orange clock. The lifelessness and melting clocks play hand in hand in this painting.
Dali came up with the idea of the “melting clocks” after watching a piece of cheese melt on a summer day. Dali’s inspiration for this work came from Albert Einstein and exactly from his theory of relativity of space and time. In this image there seems to be no humans that we know of that are alive. One of the clocks is melting over a dead tree branch. There are a group of ants on the orange clock. We can also see that one of the clocks is melting over a corpse of something or someone. When we look deeper into the painting, we can see the clocks are oddly “melting”. At times his own actions and beliefs made his name more well known then his own work.Īt a glance when looking at this art, we are shown four clocks in what seems to be a desert. After the Spanish Civil War began, he fled as he did not want to take a side in the war and ended up doing the same during World War II and received criticism for it. In his youth he supported anarchism and communism which he received backlash for. His painting skills were heavily influenced by the Renaissance. He was known for his strange images and surrealist work. The piece of art I chose when visiting the Museum of Modern Art was “The Persistence of Memory” which was painted by artist Salvador Dali in 1931.
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