The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali on page 428 is one his most distinguished works. It is an Oil on Canvas 9 1/2” x 13” and was painted in 1931. Dali uses many types of media in this picture to portray the imagery he was looking for. The First media I recognized was chiaroscuro. The artwork starts from a bright white and blue in the top left hand corner and ends up fading into darkness. There is a large …showed first 75 words of 516 total…

…showed last 75 words of 516 total…to show how he felt. He wanted to explore his fears and fantasies and express them through artwork which gives me the sense that he had great pride. I feel this piece is very important to the surrealist artworld as it is a perfect example of Dali’s realistically dreamlike content. Dali was expelled from his surrealist group in 1934 and responded as follows “ the difference between me and the surrealists is that I am surrealism.