An updated take on his own most famous painting, Salvador Dali’s 1954 work “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory” is a mid-century statement on nuclear weapons. This symbolic Surrealist work breaks down the images of the earlier work to represent the psychological effect that nuclear energy’s destruction has on humanity in the aftermath of an atomic bomb. Strongly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s psychological theories, Dali (1904 – 1989) believed that logic had failed humanity, and turned to dreams and the subconscious to transcend the limitations of reason.

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