Objects as Social Symbol – Salvador Dali
Introduction
There are many arts that have different meanings and have different interpretation. One of these is the art which has any objects as its subjects and symbolizes relevant social issues. Taking his one of the famous paintings “the persistence of memory” that has the social impact and symbol in its community, it only signifies that in at any subject always has the symbol as seen deeply.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in the family of Figueras in Catalina and young age he drawn the display of power by his own or by his authorities. Dali’s secret life was self-absorbed, voyeurism, and cruel for enjoying the exhibitionism. Despite of having the unusual behavior, he also has the unusual talent for painting and drawing. In his early age, he concentrates on landscapes. He is considered to be the giant surrealist for the art and stretches the boundaries in its own mind as well as the audience for his career. Dali joined the surrealist ranks and found himself as the forefront in the movement. According to its audience, despite of its odd tone in its artworks, its artworks are existence of inspiring and calming with artworks while they are also high quality posters (Duke, 2008).
The Persistence of Memory – Description
The persistence of memory is considered to be most famous for its paintings. The painting is a surrealistic piece that introduces the image for the soft melting pocket watch that ignites the theory of hardness and softness as a central thinking and predicts the transition of scientific phase. This has the possibility of recognizing the human figure at the mid of the composition to the strange monster that the painter used that represents himself. This has the form that becomes something to the self portrait that reappears in the frequent work. It has also the orange clock in the bottom of the left painting that covered in the ants. The painter used the image of the ants that symbolizes death (Museum of Modern Art, 2008).
The Persistence of Memory – Objects/Symbol
Generally, the tree only symbolizes the life though it has the similar function for this case in the elements of the picture and in impressing the anxiety. On the other way, this conceived the functional element on the drape of the watches that represents terror. The golden cliffs at the upper right hand of the corner are all reminiscent for the homeland of Dali yet deriving the cliffs and rocks at the Cape Creus. The painting has also rumor that it has been sprinkled by red wine after the completion (Ibid).
The Persistence of Memory – Value
The painting had been founded by Dali in the summer day and has headache. After his meal, he saw the cheese which became the account for the sunny day heat. At that night, searching for subject to be the subject, he realizes the clocks in the landscape and start to paint on. After several hours, he started to do the melting pocket watches that made the iconic image today. It was first exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Pierre wherein it was purchased in the New York for 0.
The Persistence of Memory – Dali’s Subvert and Re-conceptualization
The painter knew that the mastering of the usual paralyzing of the eye fooling and painted the imperialist of the fury precision yet the systematize confusion in helping the reality of world. In this manner, Dali had rendered the fantastic yet meticulous verisimilitude for the presentation of his dreams of credible and tangible appearance. The so called hand painted photographs, the hard objects became soft one, and the time bends, and limps as well as having the metal attraction to the ants. The monstrous creatures were the profile of the painter whereas its eyelashes are insects like. The limps of the watches are re-conceptualized and became like a soften cheese and the camembert of time. The permanence goes to the ants yet represents decay while attacking the gold watch and become organic (Authentic Society, 2008).
Conclusion
The persistence of memory only signifies the life of Dali regarding the terror and its soft as well as hard side of its attitudes. This only proves that any object as subject in any art has significant symbol and meaning. There is a strange monster or the fears of the painters in its painting. Accordingly, before the painting had done, there had been the cultivation of the self-induced psychotic hallucination creating the art. In my analysis, the painting only signifies the painful experiences of painter that started from the powerful man and anything that hard can be soft by single ants in their lives which can be a person, thing or events. Thus, it’s meaning only hard to forget by the feeling by the provoked observation of the contents of the painting.
Bibliography
Salvador Dali Biography 2008, Duke, viewed 16 October, 2008, http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/dalibio.html.
The Persistence of Memory 2008, Museum of Modern Art, viewed 16 October, 2008,
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018
The Persistence of Memory 2008, Authentic Society, viewed 16 October, 2008, http://www.authenticsociety.com/about/ThePersistenceOfMemory_Dali
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