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Question:
What does The Persistance of Memory represent?
Posted at 9/1/2007
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Painted by Surrealist Salvador Dali at the end of his Freudian phase, and foreshadowing his scientific phase, it has been speculated that the clocks themselves are a visual interpretation of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, "depicting gravity distorting time." The background cliffs and setting represent Dali’s home in Spain.
Posted: 9/5/2007
Author: DaveL
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