Comparing Persistence Of Time And The Garden Of Earthly Delights

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It is common for us to connect two artworks of different art periods that have similar styles. The history of art is an endless cycle of similar art styles that would just pop out of nowhere and became a trend again. An period of art will always found its roots in earlier artworks and movements. For example, Persistence of Time, a artwork created during surrealism, found alike characteristics in The Garden of Earthly Delights, a artwork completed nearly 400 years ago. The two artworks shows similar themes, art styles, and even alike appearances of art subjects.
Persistence of Memory
The first few decades of the twentieth century was dominated by the destruction of World War One. The demolition of the war had left Europe in ruins. European artists were arguing against the deflated direction of European art which the conscious mind is overpowering everything art was depicting everything unreasonably real. Influenced by Dadaism and the psychological findings of Sigmund Freud, artists demand to stress the importance of the unconscious mind in art. Surrealism was proclaimed in Paris in 1924 that …show more content…

Dali used two-point linear perspective which allows the mysterious figure in the middle to be the focus point. The vanishing point is set behind the sea and the plateau where it touches the sky. Most of the subjects in this painting are present in the middle ground and the foreground. The use of overlapping objects in vertical placement and diminishing size makes objects that appear bigger to be closer to the viewers. The small size of the plateau and the sea note a distant distance. The liveliness of the foreground and middleground is a strong contradiction to the aesthetic scene in the background. However, the background is very real and peaceful with no movements. It shows the withdrawn of from conscious reality and the focus on the lively, but illogical foreground and

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