In The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, I see the landscape of a piece of dark land. As the dark land continues to the edge of the island, it becomes a more sandy-colored terrain, or coast, where its edge meets the surrounding water. The region is also surrounded by a blue, cloud-filled sky and another island emerging in the distance. At the center of the work there appears to be half of a face covered by the cloak of a melting pocket watch. To the left of this item is a pocket watch covered in a bunch of ants and next to it are a couple of other melting pocket watches. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay I feel that a lot of emphasis has been purposely placed on the half-face in the middle of Dalí's work. Although the ground surrounding this figure has a very dark value, the face is quite light in comparison, despite some variations in its tonal range, giving it a seemingly greater intensity. If the face wasn't in this painting, I would say the main focal point would be the liquefying clocks. Their fusion shapes are very attractive to the eye. They give me the feeling that solid reality is slowly thawing into a liquid state of nothingness. In a way I think it might be a picture that Dalí was trying to paint as the eyes on half his face are also closed, giving the impression that he might be in a state of sleep. The only flaw I can find in this work would be the clustered look on the left of the painting contrasted with the emptier portion of the landscape on the right. I just think Dalí's paintings should have a more even distribution. Beyond that, the fine details in the texture and value of his paintings within objects such as the clocks, the table, the tree branch and the ground are incredible and, in my opinion, are incredibly triumphant. Salvador Dalí often gleaned mental invigoration for the creativity of making art from his life in Catalonia, Spain. Indeed, this is what most of his paintings are based on; then, the rocks in the distance. In reality they are the representation of a tip of the Cap de Creus peninsula, in the north-east of Catalonia. Dalí also loved to incorporate pieces of himself into many of his works. With this knowledge, it is safe to say that the half-face in this work is actually Dalí's representation of the self, centered in the middle of The Persistence of Memory. Dalí also intended the pocket watches to simply represent Catalan cheese melting and decomposing. He himself stated that they had no deeper meaning than that. Dalí also painted it while he was experiencing his Freudian phase. He had a particular interest in Freud's dream theories which explain all the references to the sleep state such as his sleeping face and all the unrealistic shapes and ideas of objects in his work.