A little bit of trivia for the day. Salvador Dali would have to be one of my favourite artist, his flamboyancy and the way his brain worked to create his works appeal to me. Born May 11th 1904, died on January 23rd 1989, a Taurus just like my self.
Dali a draftsman first, produce this painting The Persistence Of Dreaming in 1931' As Dawn Ades 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".^[3] 
This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun

It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that Dalí used in several contemporary pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work 

The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants. Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol of decay.

The figure in the middle of the picture can be read as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition. One can observe that the creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that the creature is also in a dream state.   

The clocks may symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time in the eyes of the dreamer .

The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques"^[7] to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.

The craggy rocks to the right represent a tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia. Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia. The strange and foreboding shadow in the foreground of this painting is a reference to Mount Pani.^[8]

 'The Disintegration Of the Persistence of Memory' painted 1952-1954, in this new work, quantum mechanics is symbolized by "digitizing" the old image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
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