Because of that one studying the image can feel like in a dream where rules of nature are omitted or, if familiar, the feeling after consuming hallucinogenic drugs. Browns, blues, whites and black predominate here.

The picture’s colours are subdued and calm. Image composition is a mix of realistic elements with distorted objects, placed side by side in a way lacking any logical meaning what is considered as the essence of the surrealistic trend. Destroying the logical order of reality, combining elements by accident and inspiration from dreams was a base of many artworks of Dali and The Persistence of Memory can be one of the best examples to spot these motives Paintings of the Spanish painter are characterized by a surprising combination of realistically depicted objects and places with sleepy illusions and deformations. Based on this method, Dalí came up with his own, which he called ‘paranoid-critical”, which consisted in submitting to hallucinations in order to create something that would be unusual, original and illogical. The creation of the work was to be dependent on the spontaneous movement of the hand, and automatism to obtain the best way to express hidden thoughts and the recesses of the human psyche. a practice based on free, uncontrolled creation. Surrealists used the automatic method, i.e. The author presents the theory on painting that, in such a work, the content, feeling or emotion directing the painter is more important than purely painting values. A large part of the manifestos is occupied by considerations on the dream.

The Three Surrealist Manifestos by Andre Breton, who is known as a principal theorist of the movement, criticizes the realistic attitudes of positivism, which he describes as a denial of intellectual and moral rise. The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria, 1931) by Salvador Dali is one of the most well-known artworks of the twentieth century, which has turned into a symbol of surrealism.

Dali enigmo del deseo