It is highly detailed and uncomfortably realistic for such a strange picture. This notion is useful for understanding Gorritis impulse to dwell. With its uncanny, otherworldly feel, and its melting pocket watches and mollusk-like central figure strewn about a barren landscape, Salvador Dal’s The Persistence of Memory seems. In the painting, the beach is cast on the background and shows a peninsula or a large rock outcrop. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13' (24.1 x 33 cm) See this work in MoMA’s Online Collection. The painting, like many others of Salvador Dali’s paintings, depicts a beach in his homeland, Catalonia. While Tosaka sought to supply the space of everydayness with a sense. surrealist -exploration of the human psyche and dreams -the Persistence of Memory. of Crisis and Kuki Shz defined its content in 1937 by warning Japanese. Unlike many of the other large, abstract works being produced at the time, The Persistence of Memory is quite small, not much bigger than an ordinary piece of paper. The Persistence of Memory is an oil painting done on a canvas measuring 9.5 inches by 13 inches. dreamlike dissociation of images and meaning. In this work, Dali depicts languid, melting clocks draped over an arid, desert landscape. This doesn't seem to be the meaning of the title in any case, in Spanish you cannot know, except by context, whether la memoria refers to memory as a faculty or to a specific memory (act of learning and/or recall), but most native speakers would choose the former, especially because such a specific memorized thing and its recall are not commonly called una memoria in Spanish, but un recuerdo. The Persistence of Memory (1931) is Salvador Dali’s most famous painting. "The Persistence of the Memory" would imply a particular, definite act of recall. This English memory as a faculty of learning and recalling is also a singular uncountable abstract noun, and these don't typically employ an article in English, except in some particular contexts. What persists is this power, and by implication, the store of these things that have been learned and retained. In the title of the painting, the word memoria is, or appears to refer to, a singular uncountable abstract noun its meaning is #1 in its DLE entry: "Facultad psíquica por medio de la cual se retiene y recuerda el pasado." That is, " memory" in the sense of "the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained" (M-W). Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and.