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MELTING CLOCKS PAINTING LICENSE
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When you mention Salvador Dali the most common image people see is The Persistence of Memory or the melting clock painting as its often known. “The difference between a madman and me,” he said, “is that I am not mad.” Salvador Dali Melting Clocks wall art canvas The Disintegration of the. The Melting Clock is inspired by the famous Dali painting The Persistence of Memory the well-known surrealist painting introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. The year before this picture was painted, Dalí formulated his “paranoiac-critical method,” cultivating self-induced psychotic hallucinations in order to create art. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the painting’s center is at once alien and familiar: an approximation of Dalí’s own face in profile, its long eyelashes seem disturbingly insect-like or even sexual, as does what may or may not be a tongue oozing from its nose like a fat snail. Permanence goes with it: ants, a common theme in Dalí’s work, represent decay, particularly when they attack a gold watch, and they seem grotesquely organic. Those limp watches are as soft as overripe cheese-indeed, they picture “the camembert of time,” in Dalí’s phrase.
Mastering what he called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” Dalí painted with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” he said, but only “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.” It is the classic Surrealist ambition, yet some literal reality is included, too: the distant golden cliffs are the coast of Catalonia, Dalí’s home. Hard objects become inexplicably limp in this bleak and infinite dreamscape, while metal attracts ants like rotting flesh.
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