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The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.
La Desintegración de la Persistencia de la Memoria or The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory is an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is a 1954 re-creation of the artist's famous 1931 work The Persistence of Memory , and measures a diminutive 25.4 × 33 cm.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [b] [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE; [2] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [c] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and ...
The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. [1] He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images. The technique consists of the artist invoking a paranoid state (fear that the self is being ...
Persistence of Memory: A Personal Biography of Salvador Dalí: National Press Books 1987 Italy La mia vita con Dalí: Costa & Nolan June 1989 Germany Dalí: 15 Jahre mit Salvador Dalí: Goldmann 1994 France L'Amant Dalí: Ma vie avec Salvador Dalí: Michel Lafon September 1994 Mexico La persistencia de la memoria. Una biografía personal de ...
A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (Catalan: Un farmacèutic aixecant amb extrema precaució la cutícula d'un piano de cua) (Spanish: Farmacéutico levantando con suma precaución la cutícula de un piano de cola) is a 1936 oil painting by artist Salvador Dalí. [1]
He was a passionate admirer of the work of Salvador Dalí and surrealism in general, and since 1991, he started purchasing a wide range of works by the artist, along other paintings by artists such as Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. He decided to create a museum to host his art collection, whose construction began in 1997, and ...
The male figure seen only from the waist down has bleeding fresh cuts on his knees. Below the central profile head, on its mouth, is a grasshopper, an insect Dali referred to several times in his writings. Unlike real-life grasshoppers, the grasshopper seems to be gigantic and has 4 legs instead of 6 legs.