The Persistence of Memory is Salvador Dali's best-known 1931 painting, a small canvas showing several limp, melting pocket watches draped over the branches of a dead tree, a rocky shoreline and an ambiguous fleshy form, set against a barren coastal landscape said to be based on the cliffs near Dali's home in Catalonia. The soft watches, an image Dali later said was suggested by the sight of a melting Camembert cheese, have become one of the most widely reproduced single images in Surrealist painting, read by critics as a meditation on the instability of time itself.
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Year Created LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York, United States 2 Medium
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Surrealism, section on Salvador Dali
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The Persistence of Memory is Salvador Dali's best-known 1931 painting, a small canvas showing several limp, melting pocket watches draped over the branches of a dead tree, a rocky shoreline and an ambiguous fleshy form, set against a barren coastal landscape said to be based on the cliffs near Dali's home in Catalonia.
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The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMoMA collection record, The Persistence of MemoryView the Source The Persistence of Memory (Wikipedia)
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The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistència de la memòria, Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.
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