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(More customer reviews)Although he painted such provocative images as a body tearing itself apart, fried eggs and giant lobes of flesh supported on crutches, and a giant hand emerging from the ground carrying an egg, Salvador Dali's most enduring image is that of a soft or melting watch. It is those images, more than anything else, that define him as the arch-Surrealist of the 20th century. The fact that Dali painted such totally impossible things with such realistic detail is what made his "hand-painted dream photographs" so popular and Dali the second best known artist of the 20th century after Pablo Picasso.
Dali first introduced his melting watches in his most famous painting, "The Persistence of Memory" (1931). After World War II Dali revisited that work and broke its famous images in "The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory" (1952-1954). At the time that he was finishing that work he did a detailed study of one melting watch in this ink on paper work, "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion" (1954). The original 14 x 19.1 cm work is on display at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida (this fine-art print has a 14 x 11 inch reproduction of the painting). This work emphasizes the dynamic disintegration of the one visual element, the soft or melting watch, that is most identified with his work as a surrealist artist.
The image remains compelling because of its power as a metaphor. For example, I have seen this particular painting used as art to accompany such diverse topics as an article on the Y2K bug and an essay on the Qur'anic perception of time. For those who are enthralled by Dali's soft watches, "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion" provides a close up in detail. Not as compelling as "The Persistence of Memory" (what painting is?) this art poster could certainly be part of a decor based on Dali's similarly themed artwork or could stand alone to symbolize the personal meaning of the object.
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