Salvador Dali

Hmm, not as thought prevoking as his other works.
The main feel I get is time ticking by/wasting away in a hot nothingness wilderness.The ants remind me of a rotting corpse being devoured by maggots.
Quite negative but Im not aware of Dali's background so I dont know if he was depressed.

Love One Moment Before Waking (I think that's what it's called). Hanging in my living room.

Love his work.

Its called-Dream caused by the flight of a bumble bee around a pomegranite one second before waking up.

And breath....

Its really interesting.I went through my Dali phase at school but didnt really look closely at his works.

In the UK we had an advert for a beer which brought on eof his paintings to life.In the background you could see the elephants 100's of feet high walking along.

The piece itself is hardly larger than typewriter paper but I think the title explains the concept. We tend to dream or fantasize about our past and negative thoughts persist in their intrusion even while trying to focus on the positive. It also conveys that our memory plays tricks on us, sometimes wicked tricks and are full of minutia irrelavant to what we are trying to focus on.

Pink Floyd explained it perfectly in a song

Ticking away the moments
that make up a dull day,
you fritter and waste the hours
in an offhand way.

Kicking around
on a piece of ground
in your hometown,
waiting for someone or something
to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine,
staying home to watch the rain.
You are young, and life is long,
and there is time to kill today.

And then one day you find,
ten years have got behind you,
No one told you when to run,
you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run
to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking,
And racing around
to come up behind you again.

The sun is the same
in a relative way,
but your older,
shorter of breath,
and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter,
never seem to find the time,
plans that either come to naught,
or half a page of scribbled lines.

Hanging on in quiet desperation
is the english way
The time has come,
the song is over,

Thought I'd something more to say.........

Christ thats depressed me.

Camembert Cheese
Apparently, Dali had the background completed, but was uncertain as to what to paint. He was having dinner with his wife, Gala, and some friends and happened to be eating camembert cheese (spelling?). Dali declined to go out that evening, instead spending a restless evening home. Feeling somewhat ill, he woke in the night with the inspiration of the oozing cheese and incorporated the texture into the forground of the painting with oozing clocks. He was very excited about his new creation and showed it to his wife immediately. This theme - as you know, reoccurs throughout his works.
Weird!