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Essay / Dalll - 600
With Salvador Dali, each work of art has a different character and meaning, such as in his “Persistence of Memory”, “oil painting on canvas from 1952-1954” (www .moma.org). In “Persistence of Memory”, Dali uses the values of a clumsy man in this panting and uses an asymmetrical approach to the different figures depicted in this work of art. Dali uses only neutral colors in this artwork to represent his landscape and characters. In “Persistence of Memory,” the use of the melting clocks is almost genius in how different it is and how it draws the viewer to the desk figurine with a tree that she is handing over. As you look closer you start to see that there is almost half of a face on the ground with one eye and one eyelash. Once you understand all this and try to understand it, you realize that there is almost no sensible horizon. Dali uses the values in this table almost at random. In his use of values he seems to show that there are two sources of light due to the shadow of the tree coming down towards the lower left corner of the canvas and the way the clock lights up. the painting that seems ...