Salvador Dali was a stylish surrealist artist who would put symbolism within most of his paintings right across his long and distinguished career. Surrealism for Dali involved taking standard items and making them behave in ways that you would not normally witness, be it cheese-like watches melting in the sun, or elephants with elongated limbs, carrying unrealistically heavy objects on their backs. Hard or soft, what difference does it make! As long as they tell time accurately.". He claimed they were ".nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time. The artist explained quite what was meant by his soft, melting watches. The detailed look at his melting clocks can be seen directly below whilst there are also larger versions of his classic paintings Persistence of Memory and Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory which both feature the clocks within them. Salvador Dali Melting Clocks refers to an object used in several of the Spanish artist's most famous paintings, with each of them included here along with a special detailed image of the melting clocks themselves, cropped from the rest of the painting. Melting clocks appear in several famous surrealist paintings by Spanish artist Salvador Dali Artist Dali would always use anything and everything that entered his mind during these periods of meditation, and would only analyse and select from them afterwards, once the initial canvases had been drafted. You will again find similar boldness of colour in the background scenes of Elephants and Rose Meditative. Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh famously found similar in France with their own styles. Such warmth and brightness is well suited to modern art movements such as Surrealism. This region offers an artist some inspirational colours, with vivid reds and oranges. The scenery found in this painting was directly inspired from Dali's time spent in the Catalonian landscape. Hard or soft, what difference does it make! As long as they tell time accurately." To reduce his clocks down to cheese melting in the sun has left many experts on the artist unsure as to whether this quote was meant genuinely. Melting clocks are the most memorable item in this painting, and the artist was quoted as describing them as ".nothing more than the soft, extravagant, solitary, paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time. The meditative state that he desired had come from his studies in early life, covering the work of notable psychologists like Freud. The Surrealist paintings of Dali often had a dream-like feel to them, and much of this was down to the way in which the artist set up his mind before working on them.
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