Dali, The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 (The Museum of Modern Art) Speakers: Sal Khan & Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

[wtopp]

As an older person, "The Persistence of Memory" has another meaning now...a memory from in my twenties has changed value from a memory in my 60's....You should be so lucky as to be in your 70's or 80's, You'll get it!

[mikeluke]

Thanks to people like Dali I feel like they are put here to help us open up our eyes and minds to something quite extraordinary ❤️timeless and almost beyond words to describe this genius's work, bravo sir 🥸

[qairo]

My FAVOURITE surrealist artist. My favourite piece of art!

[HamzaAnsari]

Fly on a melting clock.

Tempus Fugit, or "Time flies"

[iainholmes]

Excellent analysis. What an amazing painting. Still stunning after all these years.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish (Catalan) surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.

His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931.

Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior.

His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

[LouisHansell]

I enjoy your discussions on various pieces of art.
I was surprised that you didn't comment on the theme of spacetime expressed in this painting.
Gravity curves the clocks, which seem to be showing different times.

[diptonsauce]

I've always wondered what that blanket or dead dolphin thing with the eyelashes was! Thank you Khan!

[jadeshannon]

I love Dali's work!For me The Persistence of Memory is my favourite however so much of his other work is excellent too.

[i_am_a_music_maker]

Seeing this in person was surreal, not just because it’s a surrealist painting, but because I never knew how small it was. About the size of a postcard, but still rendered with such detail. Dali was a creative genius as well as a technical master.

[kaiservonstraus]

my favourite picture of dali !! thank you for sharing !!

[alirezasadeghifar]

Is this Sal Khan?? The founder of Khan Academy?? OMG, I love this guy, I use all his chemistry and Organic Chemistry Youtube videos to learn/review them.

[Sasha]

This is the "drippy clock" piece I associate with Dalí.
I held my breath to hear what that object in the center was.
Based on the title, I don't think of dreams so much as the imperfect human recall and how our recollections are distorted with time. Only in this case, he showed that distortion as referenced to time itself. Idk. I felt deep for a second, lol.
Sal Khan cracked me up at the end: "Look, these clocks are stupid..." He kept it too real. Very up north of him. 🤣

[nelsonx]

This painting is part of the reason that I became an artist.

[aldolopez]

In all the analysis I’ve seen of this painting, I’ve never once heard about the “melting away” of time. That’s what I personally get from the melted clocks.

[toplaycool]

I love Salvador deli's work, very imaginative and thought provoking.

[andreapatane]

I saw this 🖼in an episode of Madeline called Madeline At The Louvre. It appeared in the song, “No One Else Is You” which makes me 😢.

[NandiLoaf]

Can you make a vid on one of Dali's self portraits?

[fckinnonstick]

For me it has a connection in spacetime which is popular topics in that era as popularized by Albert Eistein. In fact He is so much inspired by science at that time and recreated it as "The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory" as a symbolized of his fascinating in Quantum mechanics.

[Tsumami__]

It’s not just a face, it’s Dali himself. He used the same kind of image in other paintings.