Dali

Nobility Of Time
Bronze, 60 cm

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About the artwork

Dalí's soft watch is both draped against and supported by the remains of a tree whose trunks sprout new life and whose roots entwine a stone. The terminology, "the crown of a watch" usually indicates a mechanical device which allows us to set the hands and wind the timepiece. Time, however, according to a Dalínian watch, is changeless and cannot be set, and the watch itself has no internal power or motion. Given this absence of movement, the crown in this case is interpreted by the artist as a royal crown which adorns the watch, identifies time's mastery over human beings rather than its utility to him. His majesty is attended by two reoccurring, fantastical Dalínian symbols: a contemplative angel, and a woman draped in shawls look on. Time reigns supreme over both art and reality.



About the artist

Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Dalí’s eccentric nature and talent for self-promotion made him the most famous representative of the surrealist movement and one of the most widely recognised artists in the world. Identified as an artistic prodigy from a tender age, Dalí attended the drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. In 1922, he enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and received recognition during his first solo show held in Barcelona in 1925. Dalí became internationally known after the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 and grew to immense notoriety and fame. Today, his sculptures and paintings are exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world and part of many coveted private and public collections. 

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