by dugoboy » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:33 pm
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In this painting, Dali significantly changed his 1931 masterpiece Persistence of Memory. This "disintegration" is characteristic of the new scientific influences on his art. The rather peaceful older landscape has been disturbed by an atomic bomb, causing everything to be blown away from each other. The rectangular blocks and rhinoceros horns floating through space
"metaphorically suggest that the world is formed of atomic particles that are constantly in motion". The watch, which was previously only melting, is now also ripping apart. This is a very loud statement about his beliefs of the potential of the atom bomb.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma Gandhi
