Salvador Dali's The Persistence Of Memory

I have chosen the oil painting The Persistence of Memory, by the surrealist artist Salvador Dali. This surrealism painting has had a lot of attention due to the odd objects that depicts several principles throughout. When first viewing this painting, many question what is going on. Dali had intended for this to be something from a dream as some objects look unreal. One of the most important principles used is line. Starting in the background the horizon line is used where the body of water and sky meet. Looking at the sky, there are invisible lines, by this I mean the several different colors in the sky fade into each other; creating a lines between without actually drawing one. Line also defines the rocky cliffs with thick bold lines to
Starting in the background of the sky he has used the primary colors blue and yellow with the additive process to make the colors seem lighter. Dali has started with an off blue that fades into a light yellow for a sunset appeal. These colors together tells that the time of day is most likely late afternoon. The sky with no definite lines fades into a white with a tint of blue to represent a body of clear water. As for the rocky cliffs, an off yellow oil was used to show the light was shining directly upon it and that it is possibly made from a type of clay. In the midline of the painting Dali had used different values of brown and black, however there is yellow used to show that light maybe shinning through something. The tree with only one branch is painted with a dull tone grey and brown to show that it is most likely dead. The pocket watch located on the lower corner is painted with more secondary colors such as orange, this stands out the most of any colors used in the painting. The platform behind the tree reflects the same color of the sky, along with the melted clocks. The block itself has an appearance of wood, not only of the line texture but the fabricated brown color. For the creature, it was painted an opaque white as if its life was just taken from
For example, the space between the creature and the cliffs doesn't seem like a lot, and the cliffs look like the same size as the creature which gives it a small look. However if you changed the space and put the two next to each other then the cliffs would look normal size. Space also affects our view of the clock and tree. The clock hanging on the tree branch makes the tree seem as if its two feet tall when in reality clocks are small and trees grow larger than houses. These two also gives an off balance feel, the clock looks extremely heavy to be laying on a tree branch, especially one that is dead