The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dalí
http://www.moma.org/collection
Salvador Dalí has made a representation of time bending in a dream through the limp image of clocks. The apparently dead creature in the middle of the painting is meant to represent the artists own face, as on can see eyelashes, nose and tongue.
Neo-classicism is a movement that went through music, visual art, architecture, literature and theatre. Any neo classicism work depends on a body of work that is generally accepted as representing a field, which is were the classicism comes into the name of the movement . Neo-classicism is essentially an art of an ideal, an artist does not repeat it in lifeless reproductions, but synthesizes the tradition anew in each work. This means a set standard, but though a neoclassical artist who fails to achieve it may create works that are inane, vacuous or even mediocre, failures of craftsmanship are not commonly neoclassical failings because improvisation, self-expression, and inspiration are not neo-classical virtues but that of modernism.
This image I made is the photo of my front gate, overlaid with another photo of arm, then run through several filters in photo shop. I am not entirely sure why I did it other then I suppose I believe our dreams represent a door to parts of our mind that is not normally know when we are awake, a place were a imagination can run wild without the limitation of logic. That and the fact I am often opening doors in my dreams as though I am looking for something.
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