Friday, October 29, 2004

The Profile of Time

The Profile of Time by Salvador Dalí, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, London

“The Profile of Time” by Salvador Dalí, 1984
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew, Richmond
London, September 2003

“Dalí returned to the theme of this painting with the variation The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954), showing his earlier famous work systematically fragmenting into smaller component elements, and a series of rectangular blocks which reveal further imagery through the gaps between them, implying something beneath the surface of the original work; this work is now in the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, while the original Persistence of Memory remains at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Dalí also produced various lithographs and sculptures on the theme of soft watches late in his career. Some of these sculptures are Persistence of Memory, Nobility of Time, Profile of Time, and Three Dancing Watches.” (The Persistence of Memory, Wikipedia)

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