![]() In fact, the painting depicts “autonomy of color and brushstroke” (Anfam 421). This painting like many of the Dali’s other surrealist paintings, which he referred to as “hand-painted dream photographs” has explicit, sharp details and the brushwork is almost invisible. The landscape of the painting is actually Port Lligat, a Mediterranean village that where Dali lived most of his life and often included in his paintings. Dali has visibly set the renowned melting watches in the landscape of the painting. ![]() The painting also tends to have a “jewel-like intensity” (Anfam 420). The Persistence of Memory is a small-sized oil-on-canvas painting and is not really as big as many imagine it to be. However, according to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), these “baffling” qualities of the painting, especially the watches, are its “highest praise.” The painting is among Dali’s works that he himself referred to as his “hand painted dream photographs.” The audience of today can read the paining as landscape, self-portraits and a self-portrait, all at the same time. Even the hardness and softness in the painting create confusion. The reason this painting has always been increasingly appealing, and has both encouraged and perplexed analysis and explanation is because Dali has effectively combined the dreamlike and the everyday, the illogical and symbolic, technology and nature. This painting served as a means of introducing Surrealism in conventional America. Salvador Dali painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931, and today it is regarded among the 20th century’s most acclaimed and remembered paintings.
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