2-2 Project Proposal
The cultural work that I chose for this assignment is a painting called “The Persistence of a
Memory” created in 1931 by an artist named Salvador Dali from Spain. Painted during the
surrealist movement, this work of art is odd but that was the point of this movement. Dali would
induce hallucinatory states in himself to achieve these ideas. Many people have said the clocks
represent time and memory as they both break down and change over time just like the melting
clocks in the painting. I agree and that is what this artist was trying to portray when he painted
