piece of art

Artist:  Salvador Dalí

Title: The Persistence of Memory ( spanish: La persistencia de la memoria)

Date:1931

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 9.5x13 inches

Country of Origin: Spain

Current location: MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) in New-York

It is the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work. The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants. Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death. The figure in the middle of the picture can be read as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition. One can observe that the creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that the creature is also in a dream state.


To my mind, it's fantastic. This masterpiece makes me think about so many things, that I can't even separate them from each other. All these pocket watches symbolize the liquidity of time in our memories, in our dreams. There is an opposition between the name of the picture and the picture itself: in the name we see a word "persistence", but on the painting all the pocket watches are so fluid, that they can't be persistant at all. Everything is so inconstant, that you can fall deep into thoughts, when you look at "The persistence of memory".

James Cameron

1.When James Cameron was a child, he liked reading sci-fi books, he'd been doing it all the time. I don't think, that he was popular. Such people usually prefer to stay away from others, so it's rather difficult for them to find friends. But, it's rather good to know such person, because it is always interesting to talk to them.
2. 1960s were those years, when science began to develop in a very fast way, so, of course, it had a big influence on J.Cameron, especially taking to account that fact, that he liked science fiction. Now our time has also a kind of influence on us, we can't live apart from the world, from the society, so we live using some common stereotypes and so on and so forth. But still, I'm trying to be myself as much as it possible.
3.Everything in water seems really weird and bizarre and Cameron was interested in such things so much, so, thus he liked diving, and then, he could draw anything he could imagine. So, I guess, it's pretty simple, why he had hobbies like that. As for me, I usually have different hobbies in different periods of time. But, some of them are constant. For example, music, hockey, srtetching(of course because of my past).
4. There are CG, ILM in those films. They are good, for sure.
5. I reckon, that both things - imagination and exploration - were important to him, it actually should depend on the situation, what is more suitable at this very moment. Talking about me, these actions are significant in my life, but the choice always depends on my mood.
6. First - the respect of the team you deal with, second - to do whatever you want, absolutely boundlessly. I agree with it, for sure, but you have not to be afraid of possible fail and stuff like that.

Autobiography

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questions

1. It's rather useful and interesting to view the U.S. Supreme Court, so, on one hand, it's not such a bad idea to allow cameras there. But, on the other hand, it's not really comfortable for people, who work there. Such things usually distract.
2.Obama's law wasn't discussed in an appropriate way yet, and it would be much more logical to discuss it 2 years later. To my mind, it's the only right way to behave.
3.The leader of a Roman Catholic Church is Benedict XVI. In Mexico people really believed him, he was a symbol of their hope. The problem with drug trafficking should be resolved, for sure. And people themselves should start fighting with it.
4.Nelson makes numbers as pictures and it is a suitable techique for him. As for me, if I learn some new information, I usually try to understand everything, so it's much easier to memorize it. But if I learn words, i just learn them by hard.

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