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The Persistence of Memory(thepersistencememory,the persistence memory,thepersistence memory,the persistencememory)The Persistence of Memory is one of the most famous paintings by artist Salvador Dalí . It was painted in 1931 and first exhibited the following year. It is a well known work of surrealism , which introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch . The painting has also been known under the title Soft Watches. It measures 24x 33 cm. Dalí began the painting with a landscape of the seashore of Catalonia at Cape Creus (one of his favorite themes). Dalí was moved to include thefamous melting- clock imagery after a vision he had following a snack of Camembert cheese - the clocks, therefore, have the texture of the soft cheese . The painting has three soft watches (one of which has a fly on it), as well as a fourth watch being devoured by ants . This is widelyseen as a commentary that time is less solid than people usually assume. In the center of the picture, under one of the watches, is a distorted human face in profile. This face also appeared inDalí's earlier work " The Great Masturbator ". The painting was first publicly exhibited in New York City in 1932 , and Dalí sold it for $ 250 . The Persistence of Memory is on display in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New YorkCity . The painting soon became the best known of Dalí's works, and has frequently been reproduced in postcards , posters , and other media. By 1938 it was so much a part of popular culture that versions of Persistence appear in the background of the animated cartoon Porky in Wackyland . Dalí returned to the theme of this painting with the variation The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory(1954), showing his earlier famous work falling apart into component parts and a series of rectangles; this work is now in theDalí in Saint Petersburg, Florida . Dalí alsoproduced various lithographs and sculptures on the theme of soft watches late in his career. External links
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