While the portrait is peculiar in its representations, the different interrelationships of the elements are fitting. However, the surrealism embedded in Dali’s painting enables it to have seemingly incongruous elements that become surprisingly harmonious-three timepieces, an ubiquitous portrait, the metal-eating ants-with the rocky cliffs and the ocean landscape.
If we are to look into the painting with traditional eyes, one can deduce that the elements and the figures in the artwork are completely unrelated. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the painting’s center is at once alien and familiar: an approximation of Dali’s own face in profile, its long eyelashes seem disturbingly insectlike or even sexual, as does what may or may not be a tongue oozing from its nose like a fat snail.” The Museum of Modern art describes time and decay themes of the artwork: “Permanence goes with it: ants, a common theme in Dali’s work, represent decay, particularly when they attack a gold watch, and become grotesquely organic. The painting graphically shows the fluidity of time and the perseverance of human brainpower. In the middle of the painting, is an indistinguishable figure which requires to be closely scrutinized and therefore becomes a face of a person emerging from the ground. The painting is like a dreamscape or a various world completely, a world where ants are drawn in to a metal item and watches are soft and practically fluid.
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