The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory was a recreated painting from The Persistence of Memory which was completed by Salvador Dali in 1931.

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory was originally known by name of The Chromosome of a highly colored Fish’s Eye Starting the Harmonious Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory. Salvador Dali completed the painting in 1954 sent it for exhibition at the Carstairs Gallery in New York. In this painting, the landscape of Cadaques was shown to be flooded with water making it a memory. Here, disintegration word was used to convey what was going on below and above the flooded water. Different shapes and figures made up of brick were shown floating in the water individually. These figures represent the quantum mechanics logic that matter consisted of atoms and molecules which are independent to each other.

During the Second World War, when the US launched a nuclear explosion in Japan, Salvador Dali attention got diverted to nuclear science and he then described the atom as his favorite food. He knew that matter was a combination of several atoms having spaces between them so that they don’t touch each other, similarly The Madonna of Port Lligat depicts this logic and Dali also replicated it. The dimensions of the painting The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory were 25.4 cm × 33 cm or 10 in × 13 in.

Earlier, this painting was exhibited in 2009 at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. There were many other paintings of Salvador Dali in that gallery and later were transported to the Dali museum. This painting was well-known for its surrealism and the artist lost interest in this form of art as depicted by the picture. Later, Dali was led to another interest of his in nuclear physics and religion.

The work can be viewed at Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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This painting was exhibited on the same year when it was completed in 1970.

The scene of the Hallucinogenic Toreador depicts a bullfighting area submerged under the color of the Spanish flag, red and the yellow tones. Salvador Dali’s wife Gala portrait was placed at the top left section of the painting. He had dedicated this painting to her. Dali’s wife always deeply disliked bullfighting and this was clearly, pictorially depicted from her serious expressions. A pattern of multicolored circles could be seen at the bottom of the painting on the left hand side. This shape attracts viewer attention towards the head of the dying bull’s from which blood and saliva was dripping out from the mouth. Dali battles with the complex illusions for the viewer similarly in this painting the toreador battles with the bull.

A green skirt gave the illusion of the bullfighter tie. Above this, a bullfighter’s shirt with a white collar button appears. A shadow above this passes through the Venus stomach which forms the bullfighter lips and chin. Venus left breast illuminated as the bullfighter’s nose and her face depict her eyes. A large group of flies and dots becomes the jacket placed to the left of the tie.

This painting by Dali was exhibited in 1970 at the New York City gallery when the work on this painting was ongoing. At that time, the image of the Toreador was very easy to see as only some illustrations designs and others were matted out completely. Several critics explicitly quoted it as How to see the toreador. This painting was painted on a very large canvas. The dimensions of the painting The Hallucinogenic Toreador were 398.8 cm × 299.7 cm or 157 in × 118 in.

The work can be viewed at Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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Morphological Echo’s second version was painted in 1936 with dimensions of 12 in x 13 in.

Morphological Echo depicts several surrealist images that contain minimum architectural settings. At a far distance, there was a wall with a bell resembling a woman like a figure wearing bundled skirts. Towards the center of the painting was an eroded strange rock formations. Salvador Dali painted the figure in the lower right of the woman was termed as the most significant element of this painting. The subject below the woman cast a shadow of itself and it seems that its arms were merging into a circle above her head. The shadow takes the subject’s figure of the appearance of the hub of a wheel over her head.

The work can be viewed at Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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