The work The Persistence of Memory has become one of the most
representative and most mysterious works painted
by Salvador Dalí,
This landscape is broken up by one rigid and There are four watches in this painting, three soft watches that lend the work many meanings. One of the soft watches hangs from an
olivetree branch A reminder that Duration of the event that may have been extended in recent memory.;
another, also deformed, rests on an amorphous and apparently sleeping figure that occupies the centre of the work.
The last soft watch is resting on a piece of furniture located on the left‐hand side. Each of the three soft watches is showing a different time
hinting at the relativity of the concept of time. In contrast with the soft watches is a fourth rigid one which, instead of showing the time, is placed facing downwards and is covered in ants
The ants, seemingly attacking the orange clock positioned on the rectangular table-like object perhaps indicate the anxiety associated with time. And what are the origins of our anxieties associated with time? Is it being too late for work? or is it not having completed or accomplished something before we die? Whether we are aware of it or not, it is reasonable to believe that we all understand, even if only on subconscious level that some day we are going to die.