Art and Time

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989)

"Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the paintings center is an approximation of Dalís own face in profile. Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dalí painted this work with "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only, he said, "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality." There is, however, a nod to the real: The distant golden cliffs are those on the coast of Catalonia, Dalís home."

-Gallery Label text

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018

taking the theme of time in art literally here i know, however i just love the element of sympathy I feel towards the image of the clocks- warn out, tired, used, I'm not sure but you just seem to want to let out a big sigh at the end of a witty wise note to self kind of statement:

"time just passes you by doesn't it?" *sigh*