Creative task: A slightly surreal assignment
“The Persistence of Memory” is perhaps the most famous and recognizable painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The artist himself shared the context of the creation of his painting with the world. On the evening when the concept of clocks melting like pancakes and hanging from trees was to be born, Salvador Dalí supposedly consumed warm, oozing Camembert cheese. Can you imagine it? The buttery consistency of cheese flowing from the velvety rind, its continuity disrupted by a fork… The clocks in the painting also seem to melt under the influence of high temperature. Looking at them, we experience…