The Persistence of Memory was originally conceived as a view of a sunset at Port Lligat where Dalí was to start building his house and studio complex. The transformation in Dalí’s imagination from Camembert to soft watch is a particularly good example of his paranoid-critical method of visualization. Its collapsed, ‘melted’ form gave him the inspiration for the soft watch, his most enduring image. Melting Clocks and Melting Cheese?Īccording to Dalí’s autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, while dining alone one evening he was attracted by an over-ripe Camembert cheese. This includes his iconic The Persistence of Memory (1931). The 1930s are referred to as Dalí's Surrealist period and it was during this decade that he created many of his best-known works. ![]() Although his popularity with the public at large has never been in question, the attitude of the art world towards this giant of twentieth-century art has often been more ambivalent. Salvador Dalí was the most complex and possibly most controversial artist of the twentieth century.
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