The Persistence of Memory

The Impossible Knife of Memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a father-daughter duo who were trying to live a normal life so Hayley Kincain, the daughter, could finish her last year of highschool. Hayley’s father, Andy Kincain, was a veteran soldier who suffers PTSD from his active-duty days, and now currently is an alcoholic who has difficulty holding onto a steady job. Hayley constantly worries about her dad, as she inspects his truck’s mileage daily to see if he has gone to work, and skipping school to check up on him when she heard that Andy’s ex-girlfriend, Trish, has been contacting the school. Somehow, past all the panic and worry, Hayley manages to develop a close and stable friendship with her neighbor, Gracie Rappaport, who

In The Persistence of Memory, time appears to be the theme, from the pocket watches detached from their chains melting slowly on rocks and the branches on a tree, to the decay or death implied by the swarming ants on the orange clock. The ants and melting clocks are recognizable images that Dali places in an unfamiliar context and he renders in a different way, “to systematise confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”. The strange formless human figure or face in the centre could be interpreted from what we might imagine being in a dreamlike state.

These changes sculpted people to be less formal than they were. Surrealism was a major part of art in the 1920s. People used surrealism to express their selves. Salvador Dali is a major surreal artist and is mostly known for his painting The Persistence of Memory. Artists used their work to show their ideas.

As mentioned surrealism, like Dadaism, tried to distance itself from contemporary culture and sought to shock the familiarity of reality. Hence, the unconscious has a centrepiece in surrealist art and the underlying theme was to create images of such unconscious situation or universes. This was primarily achieved with the use of symbolism and the placing of objects in unfamiliar settings. This would revitalize and redefine such objects outside the conventional reality that is the adversary in surrealist art and hence create the desired conflict between the conventional and the unconscious (Waldberg 1997; Martin 1987).

This article explains the importance of getting the perfect amount of sleep at night. The idea that sleeping for less than five hours or more than nine hours proves to have a negative effect on the human body. Sleep deprivation has a closely related link to memory retention and can cause a person to have trouble with daily task. The author continues to explain that not only is the brain effected by too little or too much sleep, but the rest of the body is also effected. Conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and even depression have links to not getting the perfect amount of sleep. The article concludes with listing tips to get the ideal amount of sleep at night, such as, going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day and limiting the amount of caffeine that is consumed throughout the day.

Surrealist Literature, established by Andre Breton, propels the peruser to contemplate differentiating thought to make another association. They likewise guide far from societal impact by making the peruser to delve into their oblivious and examine what they find. Surrealist writing is generally framed in a beautiful style yet utilizing free affiliation, dynamic thoughts, and nonlinear times lines (Licciardi)

The Persistence of Memory is Dali’s most recognizable painting. This painting is Representational because of its unique --------.The genre is most agreed to be landscape but has been argued to be a self-portrait due to the fact that Dali put a form? Of himself in the piece. It was created during the Dada and Surrealism period in Paris, France.

André Breton ran the Surrealist Movement with impressive discipline and rigidity, making an interesting contrast between what the Surrealists preached and the management style of its leader. An interesting story, for example, tells how Salvador Dalí, one of the most prominent members of the Surrealist movement, attended a New York costume party dressed up as Charles Lindbergh’s son, who had been recently kidnapped and murdered. New York’s society did not take the statement well and eventually made Dalí apologize for his behavior. Breton, however, almost dismissed him from Movement because he claimed that “no one should excuse himself for a Surrealist act[6].” This anecdote demonstrates the seriousness of Breton and his Movement towards its final objective: revolution and the slashing of society’s conventions in the interest of a subconscious reality.

Have you ever seen a murdering airplane, a melting clock or a lobster telephone? Although these are nonsensical statements, each was featured in very famous pieces of art of the time, know as Surrealist Movement. The Surrealist Movement was a creative effort to establish a new style. As a way to diverge from previous writing and artistic norms, artists began to use the idea of the unconscious mind and their own dreams as a way to better exemplify one's own imagination and mind. Artist and writer would show how their mind worked through their work and freely.

This paper will take a look at Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory, painted in 1931. As the viewer can tell, this is a story of time and life. The memories start in the background where all is well and things are straight and calm. Moving on to the cliff, the observer possibly sees a well-behaved teenager. There is nothing horrible here that leads the spectator to gasp, and the viewer knows this person made it through that time in their life. Then the picture moves on to the age of about twenty, the memories are fond but in the distant past. The memories are protected by a white blanket so that they do not just fall into the background. Then something happened where the person had some

Surrealism is a movement that built off of the burgeoning look into art, psychology, and the workings of the mind. Popularly associated with the works of Salvador Dali, Surrealist art takes imagery and ideology and creates correlation where there is none, creating new forms of art. In this essay I will look to explore the inception of the surrealist movement, including the Surrealist Manifesto, to stress the importance of these artists and their work in the 20th century and beyond. I also will look to films from our European Cinema course to express how films incorporate the influence of surrealism both intentionally and unintentionally.

Although visual art is looked upon differently by all, everyone has a either a favorite piece or at least something that catches their eye. Personally, I don’t have a piece of art that I would label my absolute favorite, but during a Spanish research project found that Salvador Dali’s work really stood out. “The Persistence of Memory” painted in 1931 by Dali, a highly renowned surrealist painter, is among the most interesting works I have ever seen. Even though the painting itself is rather simple in quality at first glance, what Dali’s must have been thinking about while creating this work is strikingly complex. The painting is attractive to me because it deals with the concept of time, something

The unconscious mind is the intersection of rationally irrational thought, formulated from the accumulation of memories and studied to uncover the depths of an individual. Surrealism focuses on the automatic, instinctive action, in relation to waking desires and conscious thought. Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dali utilizes realistic imagery while alluding to a mythological narrative creating a representation indicative of a dream state. Dali’s use of water parallels that of a mirror, reflecting back a similar yet altered version of the original image. This is comparable to Claude Cahun’s work Self Portrait’s use of mirror imagery as a symbol to depict the difference between an individual’s perception of oneself and reality.

Dali employs a “concrete irrationality” surrealist style giving us the illusion of realism. Design is precise, using symmetrical perspective employing a geometrical figure’s composition. The painting is well balanced. Presence of the light coming from the northeast gives a sense of a natural landscape. The light and shadow relationship “pops the elements out” and creates contrast. The pain of war is expressed by the grotesque mutating human body ripping itself apart with the anguishing facial expression.

Horry et al. (2012) conducted a study looking at the affect of confidence and conformity on memory. The study included 57 White participants that were divided into two groups, 27 for the in-group and the confederates. They were given 80 faces to look at, 40 White and 40 Chinese, and the faces had two pictures, one neutral expression for the study and a smiling for the test. The participants met the confederates and they were not allowed to interact again after the initial meeting. There was two blocks: learning phase and two testing phases. The learning phase had the participants studying 20 faces from the in-group (Whites) or out-group (Chinese) in random order. The participants were to indicate if the picture was old or new. After completing