VAL DAUGHTREY
Dreams don't have deadlines
Surrealism: is a 20th-century cultural and artistic movement that seeks to unlock the creative potential of the unconscious mind by depicting dreamlike, irrational, and bizarre scenes
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was a Spanish Surrealist artist famous for creating strange, dreamlike paintings that combined imagination, reality, and the subconscious mind. His most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory, features melting clocks.
The Persistence of Memory.
Why do you think Dalí painted clocks melting instead of keeping their normal shape?
The Elephants
Salvador Dalí Dreams, Memories, and the Subconscious Mind
Elephants universally symbolize strength, wisdom, long life, and good fortune
The Burning Giraffe (1937)
Salvador Dalí
A giraffe represents foresight, a higher perspective, gentleness, and quiet strength
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