"Eternal Memory", created in 1931, is Dali's early masterpiece and has long been known and widely disseminated.

Dali's early works were smaller in size, but painted with such precision and bright colors that they were almost like colored photographs, so he himself nicknamed them "hand-painted photographs."

Objects such as clocks, insects, pianos, telephones, photographs, old prints, etc. often appear on these small pocket canvases, and the painter often deforms them into a nightmarish image.

This painting, "Eternal Memory", which is called a "poetic symbolism", depicts a dead and quiet wilderness.

The sea is as calm as a mirror, the flat beach, the desolate coast, and a square pedestal, a board, and a tree that cannot appear in this environment.

The painting highlights three clocks that look like soft bottles. Some of them are hanging on trees, some are sitting on pedestals, and the other is resting weakly on a white creature that looks like a human face.

There is also an undeformed red clock covered with black ants.

There was also a fly resting on a soft surface on the square table.

The ants and flies are drawn with exquisite detail, and even their shadows are carefully drawn.

However, everything in the painting seems absurd. He uses a delusional context and an unreasonable way to express the life patterns and knowable objects that people have long been accustomed to.

The viewer's imagination begins to run wild.

Many people interpret this painting as: the obsession brought about by the irreversible passage of time.

The shocking and gripping charm of this painting lies in the conflict between dream and reality.

Perhaps the meaning of this painting can be explained from the characteristics of dreams mentioned by Freud in "The Interpretation of Dreams".

According to the interpretation of dreams, the box represents the uterus, being entangled by bugs is a symbol of pregnancy, etc.

You may suddenly find that everything in the painting is so crazy, mysterious and somewhat erotic. In fact, according to Dali's own explanation in his letters, this painting is a memory of his love life as a boy.

In the center of the painting is Dali's deformed self-portrait, symbolizing the incomprehensible and "the joy of it."

Everything seems to indicate that after the crazy passage of time, the artist's memories of the good life in the past are somewhat mixed with sadness and the pressure he faced under the oppression of post-war life at that time.

Viewing Dali's paintings is like interpreting a dream, which often arouses people's curiosity and inquiry, and they want to pry into the more meaningful hidden meanings from the explicit meaning of the paintings.

The paintings are full of an atmosphere of loneliness, and even a closer look at a certain part will give people a sense of fear. However, if you carefully review and peel off the layers of veils on the surface, you will find that his paintings are full of life implications.

As art critic Moser said: "I think Dali is a prophet of the changes of the times. Centralized rule can often suffocate vital organizational elements such as the content and technique of paintings, but he can break this shackles. He

It seems that in his unique way, he is breaking through the culture that was controlled by the rule at that time. Dali's empathetic way gives life to the form. In his paintings, even a tree or a pocket watch will show the same temperament as a human being.

Therefore, under the seemingly indifferent and crazy appearance, there is hidden his unique interpretation of the perceptual world and life, and the metaphysical pursuit of the meaning of life is also "seeing the end in an instant, seeing the end in the dust"

The universe contains the infinite within the finite.

Looking at Dali's brilliant and accomplished creative career, as an artist, he always diligently explored the infinite expressive power of the art world, and was never limited to a single style and creative medium.

In his youth, he was obsessed with "irrational structures." After the war, Dali was inspired by religion and atomic physics to conceptually approach a "super-rational" world.

Therefore, his paintings have gone through the transformation process from Impressionism, Surrealism and finally the classic period.

His multi-faceted application of virtual reality in painting techniques is creative.

The life of this master, who is famous for exploring the subconscious mind, is full of fantastic legends.

His life itself is surrealistic, and his words and deeds are very different from traditional artists. He is good at self-promotion and pursuit of fashion. However, his pursuit of art is non-committal. He has worked in almost all art carriers.

Using everything he creates - oil paintings, watercolor paintings, sculptures, jewelry design, clothing design, and even perfume design, his rich artistic language leads a sensual and fashionable art culture, becoming an immortal milestone in the world of painting.

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