The Persistence of Memory 1931

The Persistence of Memory is an oil on canvas painting by Salvador Dali in 1931. This painting is set in what appears to be the desert, with stopwatches that are drooping, or melting. The surrealism movement was going on during the time of this painting. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s in France and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious. The Persistence of Memory shows realistic techniques with a look that is found in dreams rather than a persons reality. Most of Dali's painting revolved around landscape and something as simple as this makes it beautiful.