

A siesta, to him, has always opened the doors of a pre-sleep period, the instant when one forgets To dream is easy for him because of his Mediterranean heritage. The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role inĭali's paintings. This painting was one of the first Dali executed using his 'paranoid-critical' approach in which he depicts his own psychological conflicts and phobias.ĭali had studied psychoanalysis and the works of Sigmund Freud before joining the Surrealists. In The Persistence of Memory, one of his earlier Surrealist works, Dali was influenced by Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which he combined with a Catalan background, a feature of much of
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Discovery of American by Christopher Columbus, 1959.The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954.Rhinocerotic Figure of Phidias's Illisos, 1954.Christ of Saint John of the Cross, 1951.Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943.Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, 1936.Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's "Angelus", 1933.
