Persistence of Memory |
Surrealism imparted a new impetus to the Fantastic; indeed, most surrealists start from a fantastic premise in which dreams and waking, the conscious and the subconscious, nature and the supernatural are not distinct but rather continuous states or categories. Of the many surrealists, Dali, with his taste for provocation, and his realistic style in the depiction of strange and pointedly bizarre visions, seems to capture an essential feature of the fusion of surrealism and the Fantastic. |
