This painting has always interested me ever since I first saw it in Primary School. I love the use of colour and the weirdness of the painting. It looks melted, unlike anything i've ever seen, like when you leave chocolate coins in a heated area for too long. This painting is relevant to me because it looks how I feel a lot of the time. I feel lonely and sad, like no one could ever cheer me up no matter how much they tried, like i'm slowly melting like this painting, it gives off the emotions of sadness and despair for me, as if time is 'slipping away'.
When Dali painted this painting he was showing that we have no sense of time when we are dreaming, therefore the clocks in the painting are melting and everything else looks quite normal. Pocket watches were very popular in the 1920's-30's when the Surrealists worked, and it has been questioned if these are infact pocket watches in the painting, The Surrealists laughed at most things middle class society takes seriously and that includes the importance we place on things like pocket watches that mark passage of time.
This painting had been reproduced many times, it is seen everywhere, on postcards, posters and it was even in a Looney Tunes film where Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny enter the painting and start melting themselves.
In 1936 the Museum of Modern art in New York city held its first Surrealist exhibition, which Dali's 'Persistence of memory' was the star of the show. This led to him being on the front cover of Time magazine, which made him very popular.
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