Salvador Dali’s most famous work, “The Persistence of Memory,” bears his trademark symbolism in his use of ordinary objects altered in an eerie, nightmarish way. A groundbreaking Surrealist was also profoundly interested in scientific breakthroughs, Dali (1904 – 1989) created what he called “hand-painted dream photographs” in which his fantastic visions were rendered with credible realism. Perhaps drawing his conception of time’s pliability from Einstein’s theory of relativity, Dali mysteriously offered that “the famous soft watches are nothing less than the tender, extravagant, solitary camembert of time and space.”

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