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The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
It is , however , definitely possible to see too much into some things .
The surrealist works of the Spanish artist Salvador Dali have long provide fertile dry land for philosophic rendition , and the famous thawing sentry in his 1931 painting " The Persistence of Memory " provide a admonitory tale .
At the time , a celebrated interpretation was that Dali ’s melting watches were a symbolical reference to the fluidness of clip and infinite evince in Albert Einstein ’s hypothesis of especial relativity : " a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our impression of a fixed cosmic order , " as one art historian wrote .
But when Dali was afterwards need about this theory by the Belgian scientist Ilya Prigogine , he respond in a varsity letter that the misshapen and dripping watches in the painting were not inspired by Einstein ’s theories of blank space and fourth dimension — but by watching Camembert cheeseflower unfreeze in the sun .
