The Persistence of Memory(La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism's most famous ...

Salvador Dali was born in 1904, ... And because death was so often on his mind, he often painted the symbols of death—a fly for the transience of life, ants symbolizing death and decay.

Talk story about Salvador Dali autographing his book at Brentano's, Mrs. Hutchens told us that Dali, Gila, ... Ants in Brentano's. By Eugene Kinkead and Russell Maloney. April 30, 1943 ...

Salvador Dalí’s oeuvre was never just made up of ants, eggs, spiders, and melting clocks painted against dreamy, sometimes nightmarish, landscapes. In his later years, the Surrealist turned his ...

Salvador Dali Suffered From the Irrational Fear That Insects Were Crawling All ... at least, he may have reaped creative rewards from his suffering: ants later showed up in his paintings, and ...

After visiting the Salvador Dalí House Museum, road trippers can continue their immersive Salvador Dalí road trip to the Dalí Theatre Museum in Figueres—a 50-minute drive west from Portlligat.