Many of us visit art galleries and wonder what an artist is trying to tell us with his paintings or sculptures. It's never easy to interpret a piece of art as everyone sees it from their own perspective. Many of the master pieces of Salvador Dali have been replicated and volumes have been written about his artwork. Two of those will be compared and analyzed in this essay ; "Apparition of Face and Fruit- dish on a Beach" and "The Persistence of Memory". One is about the inseparable fate of humanity from nature the other is about memories that we create at every step and that come back to us and keep haunting us.
There are both similarities and differences in these masterpieces.
Both are about journey in life. In "The persistence of memory" Dali depicts a personal journey, where the melted clocks hanging on the totally bare single branch of the tree, or folded on the edge of the table or settled on a piece of cloth depict passage of time and the stillness of the past. It's all gone, it's almost lifeless, everything has melted away, underlining the pain that one feels when he or she tries to dig one's own past for answers but struggles to reconstruct the moment as it has faded away like the melted clocks. There are some very strong colors in that painting, dark brown, reddish orange, but also very peaceful colors like azure blue, creme and white. The dance of color is choreographed so carefully that one never gets tired of watching this painting. In the second piece "Apparition of Face and Fruit- dish on a Beach" he's trying to show how closely interrelated is the quality of our life to the quality of our nature. The painting presents a white and serene beach, with extremely peaceful colors of white, creme and shadows of b...
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...stiffness of time in the old ugly table, whereas in the second one, very little amount of dark colors have been used to show the garbage left behind on the white, creme dreamy sand line of the cost. Finally "Persisting memories" is about the journey of the individual whereas the "The apparition of face-fruit dish" is about the journey of humanity.
To conclude, both masterpieces provide a lot of food for thought and present an era of creativity that was accentuated with contrasting realities, one that is mindlessly racing forward, one that feels the urge to advance technically and become prosperous and rich just financially and another that's trying to put on the breaks and remind of the values that need to be preserved and passed on. In both paintings, one can see that torment, that urge to stop for a moment and reevaluate own life and collective journey in time.
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images in this painting, all of which have the power to symbolize to us, the viewer, of the painter’s
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Imagine you can own one of the famous painting in the world. Which one would it be? What will you do with it? If I got to own a famous painting, I would hang it in my bedroom and I’ll show it to my family. In this situation, If needed to narrow it down it will be The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali or Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. These paintings are extremely different, and their artistic movement is opposite from one another. By the end of this essay, you’re going to know the differences and similarities of these paintings.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Puebol was born on May 11, 1904 in Spain. His father, Salvador Dali y Cusi, was a middle class lawyer and a notary. His father was very strict with raising his children. On the other hand his mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres allowed Salvador more freedom to express himself however he wanted, we can see this in his art and how eccentric he was throughout his life. Salvador was a bright and intelligent child, and often known to have a temper tantrum, his father punished him with beatings along with some of the school bullies. Salvadors father would not tolerate his son’s outburst or wild ways, and he was punished often. Father and son did not have a good relationship and it seemed there was competition between the two for his mother, Felipa attention. Dali had an older brother who was five years old, who died exactly nine months before he was born. His name was Salvador Dali. There were many different stories about how he was named. It is traditional in the Spanish culture that the oldest male takes the father’s name, this is the simple story. The other story was that his father gave him the same name expecting him to be like his dead five year old big brother. Dali later in life told others that his parents took him to his brothers grave and told him that he was a reincarnation of his older deceased brother. Dali said “we resemble each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections. He was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute”. Being a child and trying to comprehend that your parents are comparing you to a sibling that has past is difficult but the fact that Salvador had to visit the grave in incomprehensible.
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