More Than Just Paintings

 This is a painting called The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory. It is painted by Salvador Dalí who was a Spanish surrealist artist in the 1900s. He produced over 1500 works of art in the span of his lifetime. 


I didn’t know who Salvador Dali was until I went to the Salvador Dali museum when I was in St.Petersburg Florida a few years ago. I spent a long time looking at all his artwork. I found the colorful paintings very captivating. They were nothing like anything I had ever seen before. With each look at any of his artworks, I noticed something new that I hadn’t seen the previous times. At first glance, I saw only part of the paintings, but when looking again, a different part came into view. I love how his paintings have a lot of depth and so much going on. This is not just the case with what’s visually present but also with the actual meaning of the paintings themselves. One of my favorite works by him is called, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, as seen above. It has so much meaning. It may look like a bunch of melting clocks in water and on a tree but each aspect connects to form a central meaning. The horns symbolize atomic missiles, the blocks represent the breakdown of matter into atoms, and together they show how humanity could cause its own destruction. I love how Salvador Dali’s paintings hold so much more than just illustrations.

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