MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – MOMA, Museum of Modern Art New York: The Treachery of Images, by Salvador Dalì

He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. In between 1926 and 1929, Dalí made several trips to Paris, where he met with influential painters and intellectuals such as Pablo Picasso, whom he revered. By the mid-1930s, Salvador Dalí had become as notorious for his colorful personality as his artwork, and, for some art critics, the former was overshadowing the latter. https://www.moma.org/

The persistence of memory – also known as “The soft watches” – is a surrealistic painting in oil on canvas (size 24 x 33 cm), made by the Spanish painter Salvador Dali in 1931. Since the painting is visile at the Museum of Modern Art New York, we invite you to plan your special trip to this city (where it was exhibited in 1932, the exhibition dedicated to the surrealists). The Persistence of Memory, shows a wasteland dominated by the presence of some soft watches, the texture almost fluid, the elasticity of time symbols. Dali as well narrates the gestation of this work: “The day when I decided to paint watches, I painted them flabby. It happened one evening when I felt tired and I had a slight headache, which I very rarely happens. Of course, your attention is captured by the three soft watches, almost liquefied, which in fact are the protagonists of the scene. Melting themselves, they assume the shape of the mountings. You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for http://meetingbenches.com/2015/08/salvador-dali-19041989-spanish-painter-the-skilled-surrealist-who-knew-the-nuances-of-emotional-memory/

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