Salvador Dalí was a surrealist artist known for his unique and bizarre works that combined everyday objects in impossible ways meant to depict dreams and the subconscious mind. One of his most famous paintings, Persistence of Memory, from 1931, depicts melting clocks in a desert landscape, combining soft, rounded shapes with the subjectivity of time to give viewers a sense of the dreamlike nature of memories and how they persist beyond objective measures of time. Dalí sought to surprise viewers and illustrate the unbounded imagination of the mind through unusual juxtapositions that could not exist in reality.
