The Persistence of Memory is Salvador Dalí's masterpiece, a painting that embodies the surrealist movement.

A typical landscape of Dalí, with rocks of Cabo Creus in the background, and a clock in the foreground.

The idea for the melted clocks came from a piece of melting Camembert cheese, observed by Dalí during a summer afternoon.

The contrast between the blue sky and the color of the sand creates a scenic illusion, while the melted clocks represent the fluidity of subjective time.

The ants devouring the mechanical clock represent the decomposition of chronological time and the finitude of matter in the face of the eternity of the unconscious.

Clique aí e dê uma olhada na obra completa no MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), em Nova York.

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