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The meaning of this painting is that our minds can sometimes be so timeless to us that we try to create the blurry figures of our memory with our imagination. So this whold potrait is like a dream or a nightmare for anybody who has a blurry memory. The ants, tree, clocks and the amorphous figure, and the steps are very easy to find out if you think about it. The ants on the red clock symbolizes anxiety or nervousness. The tree symbolizes death. The bent clocks mean that our memories are so vague to us. For example we cant read a clock if it is broken or wrong. That's how it relates to it. The amorphous figure is the face of Salvador Dali. Also it can be the symbolization of birth because the sack thing looks like fetus. And the steps can be very confusing. but it means the sexual act because when you go up and down on the steps..... just think about it...... and the blue step on the background means

Smooth walls over which the dreamer climbs,

the facades of houses, down which he lowers himself often in great anxiety---

correspond to erect human bodies, and are probably repeating in the dream

recollections of a baby's climbing up his parents or nurse. The 'smooth' walls aremen; in his fear the dreamer often clutches hold of 'projections' in the facades of

houses. So everything is very clear if you just think of it.

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The meaning of this painting is that our minds can sometimes be so timeless to us that we try to create the blurry figures of our memory with our imagination. So this whold potrait is like a dream or a nightmare for anybody who has a blurry memory. The ants, tree, clocks and the amorphous figure, and the steps are very easy to find out if you think about it. The ants on the red clock symbolizes anxiety or nervousness. The tree symbolizes death. The bent clocks mean that our memories are so vague to us. For example we cant read a clock if it is broken or wrong. That's how it relates to it. The amorphous figure is the face of Salvador Dali. Also it can be the symbolization of birth because the sack thing looks like fetus. And the steps can be very confusing. but it means the sexual act because when you go up and down on the steps..... just think about it...... and the blue step on the background means

Smooth walls over which the dreamer climbs,

the facades of houses, down which he lowers himself often in great anxiety---

correspond to erect human bodies, and are probably repeating in the dream

recollections of a baby's climbing up his parents or nurse. The 'smooth' walls are

men; in his fear the dreamer often clutches hold of 'projections' in the facades of

houses. So everything is very clear if you just think of it.

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I have a book on surrealism that specific talke about this painting. In short the painting is about Dali's subconcious fear of death, which I will further explain with a small exert from the book:

The painter's portrait (which is the weird snail like thing in the foreground) resembles a snail creeping along the ground. The indicators of time are what form the real subject of the painting though. These indicators or clocks undergo a far-reaching transformation almost impossible to grasp through the use of logic. It is not the forward movement of the watch hands but the melting of the watches themselves that show time slipping away. The clock with ants and the tree with no leaves are premonitions of approaching death. Do these imitations of mortality refer to the lifeless head and liquefying body of the painter lying on the ground? Is the picture about his unconsious fear of death or the Persistance of Memory that parayses him?

And if you are interested, the book I found this in is called: Surrealism by Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy. It has more artists then Dali in it, but it is really a great book, in my opinion.

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The Persistence of Memory, a painting by Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) from Spain, has a surrealistic rendition of a melting clock that may have been conceived when he was contemplating leftover Camembert Cheese.

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Surrealistic paintings are supposed to be riddles without answers.

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The clocks in the painting are showing time is ticking away. Therefore, it is creating memories.

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