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The Persistence of Memory, Dalí

What if time ran like cheese left out in the sun?

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In 1931, Salvador Dalí painted The Persistence of Memory: soft watches in a bare desert landscape. A small canvas with a huge afterlife.

Surrealism found one of its clearest images here.

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