Salvador Dali's The Disintegration Of The Persistence Of Memory

Surrealism was an art movement that started in 1942 and was highly influenced by Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychology. (Biography.com Editors, “Salvador Dali”) Following Freud’s ideas, surrealists, like Salvador Dali, believed the conscious mind prevented imagination to flow and the psyche held all creative thoughts and ideas. Surrealism, an art movement that started in Paris and” sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination” (The Art Story, “Surrealism”), can appeal to those who see art in an eccentric way (pathos). Salvador Dali painted The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory in 1952. The logic this painting is distorted and Salvador Dali uses it to appeal to his audience. With his eccentric paintings, Salvador Dali wanted to show the mind holds creative ideas as Freud theorizes (logos). In The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory painting, the melting of the clocks and the distortion of the branches can be portrayed as a reflection of how we as a society try to grasp our …show more content…
The artist uses logos in a way that states that people with eccentric minds and different behaviors are still part of society based on psychologist observations and theories. The use of famous psychologists’ observations is a way the artist uses ethos to give his artwork credibility. Some people will not conform to the norms of society because they dislike what society tells us to be. Those people will deviate from the norms and act the way they want, not the way society tells them to act. And, as time changes and beliefs change, some people will hold onto their beliefs that no matter society tells them. Like the mountain in the painting, their beliefs and how they are as people will not change unlike the branches in painting. As time changes, they will remain set on their beliefs and life unlike those who wish to reflect society’s