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describe and analyze an artwork. Form describes all of the physical attributes of
an artwork including the work’s size and medium, the techniques the artist has
employed and the visual composition and design implemented. Content refers to
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Directions
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final version.
Provide 2 sources.
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piece.
Body: In the main body of the essay develop your researched ideas and analyze
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The persistence of memory by S. Dalì, a cross-currricular project
1. Salvador Dalì:
The Persistence of Memory
“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a
supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalì.”
Martina Guerriero
Martina Trocchi
2. A preliminary remark:
- What is Surrealism?
It was a cultural movemen tthat began in 1924 with its centre in
Paris: it was founded by Andrè Breton.
The group met in cafes to discuss psychology and social
revolution.
Surrealistic style used visual imagery from the subconscious mind
to create art without the intentiono flogical comprehensibility.
It was attracted by the psycho analitical work of Freud and
Jung, but it did no taccept Freud‟s description of the dark side of
the human nature.
Visual arts played an importantrole in delivering the Surrealist
messageto the public, through both painting, sculpture and pop
music or film directing.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalì, who was the greatest
Surrealist painter,s aid:
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
3. Salvador Dalì
- Biography
Salvador Dalì was born on May 11th, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
1922: at the age of 18, he began his studies at Academia de San Fernando (School of Fine Arts) in Madrid.
He was well known for his Dandy-like manners and even more for his paintings.
1926: he was expelled from the school just before his final examination, after proclaiming that none of the professors were
qualified to examine him. After that, he moved to Paris, when he met Pablo Picasso for the first time.
1929: the artist joined the Surrealist movement and he met his future wife and Muse, Helena Diakonova, known as “Gala”.
Healsomadefilms, like “The Andalusian Dog” withBunuel. Heworkedwith Hitchcock, Disney and the photographer Man
Ray.
1934: he was expelled from the Surrealist group, since they were outraged byhis refusal to take a political stand against
fascism and by the commercialization of his works.
1942: he published his autobiography “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalì”.
1960: he started to work on The Dalí Theatre and Museum, in Figueres.
1982: Dal ìwas suffering for palsy condition. His beloved wife Gala died.
He died from heart problems on January 23rd, 1989 in his hometown.
“I myself am Surrealism.”
“The only d ifference between me and the Surrealists, is that I am a Surrealist.”
4. The Masterpiece:
- The Persistence of Memory
La Persistencia de la Memoria
1931, oil on canvas, 9½by 13‟‟ (24.1 x 33 cm), MOMA of NY
5. - Description
The landscape is the one of Dali‟s beloved Port Lligat, the northest corner of Spain, in the
province of Catalonia.
“Irrational,
fantastic, It‟s composedby: a fetus-like head; fourwatches, three of which are molten, as they‟re
made o fcheese; the only one whose structure doesn‟t appear to be malformed is sitting
paradoxical, on a step-like object and the ants seem to have found a point of interest in its centre.
disquieting, baffling, Main colours: brown, yellow and blue.
alarming,
The importance of light: The rock on the left is in the shadow, and the one on the right is lit;
hypnogogic, the ants, the three melted clocks and a fetus-like object all reside in the shade as well; the
mountains and the water are lit by sunlight.
nonsensal and mad –
but to the Surrealists It can be drawn a diagonal line between the shadowed place and the lit ones The
distorted (soft) images that are in the shade are representing subconscious images, while
these adjectives are the sun-lit mountain (hard) and water represent consciousness.
the highest praise.” The empty, desert-like expanses of the painting are much closer to the topography of the
mind, to a dreamscape.
-MOMA of NY-
It‟s to notice the lack of clues of distance, of recognizable landmark, of time, of
temperature.
6. -What is the meaning of this painting?
Dalì was also a philosopher and he studied works by Freud and Nietzsche.
“The Persistence of Memory” is a collection of ideas, that deal with
interpretation ofdreams, perception of reality, time, birth, death and sexual
desire.
Each imageof the picturehasinterestingmeanings:
The watches;
The ants;
The fly;
The olive tree;
The steps;
The amorphous shape;
7. - The Watches
Perhaps they‟re nothing more than ideasi nfluenced by the Camembert cheese left for a too
long time on the table, during a warm sunny day (“Diary of a Genius”, S. Dalì)
It‟s clear that they really represen time– some haves uggested the picture pays a tribute to
Marcel Proust‟s“Remembrance of Things Past” and acknowledges the power of the
unconscious to preserve memories over time.
According to one of the many theories, the drooping pocket watches possibly suggest the
irrelevance of time during sleep.
Dalí juxtaposes two ordinary symbols of time: clocks and sand The clocks are melting over
a vast and lonely beach that resembles the sands of time.
The fact that the watches are soft seemingly contradicts the significance of time itself,
rendering both time and the machine that measures it ineffective and irrelevant.
They are powerful and disturbing images of entropy, that fundamental physical process by
which all things decay in time.
A more psychoanalytical approach to the “Persistence of Memory” is considering the limp
clock representing a nostalgic return to a state of amorphousness.
See “The Catalan Bread” (1932).
8. - The AmorphousShape
This figure is recognizable from other of Dalí‟s
paintings as a self-portrait, which he called “The
Great Masturbator” and that he developed in
Lorca Paintings.
This self portrait seems to emphasize sleep,
positioning the painting‟s dreamscape as a
concrete realization of an unconscious world.
The embryo-like shape refers to Dalí‟s memories of
intra-uterine life and remembers the trauma of birth.
A watch sagging across it evokes feelings of
timelessness associated with the experience of pre-
birth.
9. - Ants and Flies
As symbols of decay, they‟re common in Dalì‟s works of time, in
which World War II was about to break out.
Seemingly attacking the orange watch, they indicate the anxiety
associated with time.
We all understand, even if only on subconscious level, that some
day we are dying.
10. - The Olive Tree
A major agricultural product of Catalonia, the olive
makes its appearance in early works like “The Lane to
Port Lligat with View of Cup Creus” (1922-23) and
“Cadaquès” (1923).
In “The Persistence of Memory” the dead olive tree
reinforces the sense of decadence of the painting and it‟s
in reference to the Spanish Civil War.
It helps creating not so much a dreamscape as a
nightmarish one.
11. There are two steps: the large brown one in the lower left-hand corner,
and the less prominent blue one at the horizon on the painting‟s left
side.
Also in other paintings of the time, like “The First Days of Spring” (1929)
- Steps
Dalì paints steps as part of a visual language of Freudian symbols.
“Steps, ladders or staircases, or, as the case may be, walking
up or down them, are representations of the sexual act.
Smooth walls over which the dreamer climbs, the facades of
houses, down which he lowers himself - often in great
anxiety - correspond to erect human bodies, and are probably
repeating in the dream recollections of a baby’s climbing up
his parents or nurse. The “smooth” walls are men.”
“The Interpretation of Dreams” – S. Freud
12. - Another theory
the painting maybe a visual depiction of the idea behind
Einstein's theory of relativity: that time itself is relative and not
fixed.
Dalì himself hadnt‟ shown much interest in painting from
science until after World War II, when he turned into a deep
change.
It began „Nuclear‟ (or „Atomic‟) period of his work. His
paintings started suggesting the atomic composition of what
is known as matter.
See “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”
(1952/54).
13. - How human memory works
Forming memory is a four-step process and four is the number
of the main types of human memory:
Sensory memory;
Working memory;
Short-term memory;
Long-term memory.
According to this theory, the sensory memory is the persistence
of sensations and it permits to attach our experiences to
something we end up remembering at its deepest level.
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the
other twenty-two in dreams”
Salvador Dalì
14. - Conclusions
Dalì often called his paintings “hand-painted
dream photographs”.
In “The Conquest of the Irrational”, Dalì
remarked:
“Soft watches are nothing else than
the tender, extravagant and solitary
paranoic-critical Camembert of time
and space.”
15. “It was on anevening when I felt tired, and had a slight
headache, which is extremely rare with me. We were to
go to a moving picture with some friends, and at the
last moment I decided not to go. Gala would go with
them, and I would stay home and go to bed early. We
had topped off our meal with a strong Camembert, and
after everybody had gone I remained a long time at the
table meditating on the philosophic problems of the
„super-soft‟ which the cheese presented to my mind. I got
up and went in to my studio, where I lit the light in
order to cast a final glance, as is my habit, at the
picture I was in the midst of painting. […] In spite of
the fact that my headache had increased to the point of
becoming very painful, I avidly prepared my palette
and set to work. When Gala returned from the theater
two hours later the picture, which was to become one of
my most famous, was completed. I made her sit down in
front of it with her eyes shut: „One, two, three, open your
eyes!‟ […][I asked her, “Do you think that in three years
you will have forgotten this image?” “No one can forget
it once he has seen it.” “Then let‟s go and sleep. I have a
severe head-ache. I‟m going to take a little aspirin.
What film did yousee? Was it good?”
“I don‟t know… I can‟t remember it any more!”
From “The Secret Life of S. Dalì”