Salvador Dali

Elements of Surrealism and Analysis of “The Persistence of Memory”

Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) – Salvador Dali

Salvador and Gala Dali

surreal

Weaning of Furniture Nutrition (1934) – Salvador Dali

juxtaposition

transformation

Object (1936) – Meret Oppenheim

dislocation

The Portrait (1935) – Rene Magritte

metamorphosis

The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934) – Salvador Dali

symbols

Metamorphosis of Narcisuss (1937) – Salvador Dali

paranoiac- critical method

Rock Formations(Cap de Creus National Park, Catalonia, Spain)

Rock Formations(Cap de Creus National Park, Catalonia, Spain)

Rock Formations(Cap de Creus National Park, Catalonia, Spain)

Rock Formations(Cap de Creus National Park, Catalonia, Spain)

Dali in “The Conquest of the Irrational” Essay (1935)

“[The paranoiac-critical method is a] spontaneous method of irrational

understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of

delirious phenomena.”

double-image painting

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) – Salvador Dali

Voltaire (1694 – 1778) – French Philosopher

Bust of Voltaire (1778) – Jean Antoine Houdon

Apparition of Face and Fruit – Dish on a Beach (1938) – Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory (1931) – Salvador Dali

Gala Dali

Camembert Cheese

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954)