Salvadore Dali
I remember seeing a picture of the painting ‘ Persistence of memory , frequently referred to as Melting Alarm Clocks. This icon of the surrealist movement fascinated me when I was around 6 years old and i came across an image of it while pawing through art books of my mothers. The landscape also a trade mark of Dalian paintings was mysterious and full of hidden imagery. I like looking deeper and deeper into the images making out ever more of the hidden details. The barren landscape looks forbidding in the light of the setting sun with barren weathered branches strewn about. On these branches hand the faces of clocks as if made of fabric hanging fluidly over the branches. I didn’t draw a lot of meaning from it as a child at least not one conscious level. I just remember being fascinated with the image, the colors, mood and emotion. Oddly the image was not frightening to me. I recall another image that stood out in my mind from the same series of books, Boschs’ ‘Garden of Earthly Delights ‘. Painted centuries earlier than Salvadore Dali’s ‘Persistence of Memory’ and centuries before the term surreal was coined yet the image has many surreal qualities. These paintings in particular and many others drew me into an interest in art. Salvador Dali and the Surreal movement being very favorites as a young adult. Having visited the Persistence of Memory many times at New York Cities Museum of Modern Art. I have now had the chance to see the Garden of Earthly Delights in person at the Prado in Madrid. And now to top it all off I will be staying at Barcelona Spain luxury hotel and using it as a jumping off point to visit the Salvador Dali museum and see the sights and visit the places these artists lived learned and painted in the Catalan country side.
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