Wednesday, 4 June 2008

"The persistence of Memory ( soft watches), 1931

I think that the first time I saw this painting was a long time ago. Maybe I was 11 years old. I remembered that I was in an art class at school and I had a teacher that was a big fun of Salvador Dali. She taught us a lot of him and she showed us many different paintings of him.
I like his paintings because I think that each painting has many details that are hidden. In some of his paintings there are images that appeared like a combination of others elements that are shown in the painting. Each time you see a Dali’s painting you can spend many hours in front of it looking for details and hidden messages. I like this painting in particular because it makes a contrast of time and loneliness.
It makes me feel that time is not everything that in the end time is not something that really matters. People nowadays think that time is everything, they live in a hurry, but this painting shows that you need to make a stop and think about the things that are around us.

2 comments:

Cris said...

I was about doing the same!!good thing I saw yours first. I don't like it that much, but it seems interesting to me.

catcha alter..hahah

Simon said...

Nice choice, though not my favourite Dali. I got to see a HUGE collection of his paintings at the Tate Gallery in London in 1980. Truly wonderful.