What is surrealism? Salvador Dali is probably the most famous surrealist painter, exploring human unconsciousness and laying it on canvases. Here, the Persistence of Memory has melting clocks, some kind of monster (which could be Dali himself) and ants. What do they mean? There’s perhaps a different way to perceive dreams, time and memory through this painting.

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