Famous Salvador Dali: A Life in Conflict credit: pixabay It's a rare work of art that comes to represent the entire movement that birthed it: Monet's Water Lillies and Impressionism, for example, or Millais's Ophelia and the Pre-Raphaelites. In today’s case, nothing represents Surrealismquite like the image of a melting clock, and no artist better encapsulates the feel of surrealism more than Salvador Dali. If you know nothing about art -- if you grew up inside that compound from The Village and have never even seen pencil put to paper -- you know that melting clocks probably means things are about to get weird. One of the most referenced images in the modern canon, inspiring jokes in everything from The Simpsons to Looney Tunes, The Persistence of Memory is the brainchild of none other than our boy Salvador, the genre-defining multi-media artist best known for living a life that was almost as weird as the subjects he painted. Depending on the source, the melting clock rep...
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