Crucifixion

Dali painted this famous surrealist artwork in 1954. 

Crucifixion is a work from Salvador Dali's scientific 

period; he was very interested in math and physics. The 

painting depicts Jesus as being crucified upon an unfolded 

cube.  

The woman in the picture is Dali's wife, Gala. As for the 

background, it is Port Lligat, a village in Dali's childhood 

city of Catalonia.

The Persistence of Memory

This is Dali's bets known painting, and it was created in 

1931. During this time in his life, he was influenced by 

psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and dream analysis had a 

great impact on his paintings.

This piece epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and 

"hardness." The watches are an unconscious symbol of 

the relativity of space and time. The orange clock at the 

bottom left of the painting is covered in ants; Dalí used 

ants as a symbol for death.The figure in the middle has 

one closed eye, suggesting that it is in a dream state. The 

clocks symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it 

in sleep.The Persistence of Memory employs techniques 

that depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than 

in consciousness.