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Assignment:

Analyze the painting "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali as a means of expression.

• Give a description of the artwork you've chosen. Be sure to name the artist and say something about the historical context of its creation.
• Explain/describe the work of art you've selected. If the work depicts a subject or event (like representational paintings, sculptures, stories, or films do), describe what is depicted. If the artwork is nonrepresentational (like an abstract painting or sculpture, music, or architecture) you can simply say that it is nonrepresentational.
• Explain two or three things that the artwork expresses, beyond whatever is directly depicted in the work (if it is representational). What ideas, moods, emotions, feelings, hopes, aspirations, or states of mind do you think the artist is trying to express? If the work is representational, perhaps the artist is expressing certain feelings about what's depicted (for example, grief, anger, or joy).
• Describe at least three features of the work that have an expressive power. Here you can focus on qualities specific to the selected art (color, line, shape, composition, light and shading, sound, and so forth). These are the aspects of the work that do the job of communicating to the viewer or listener something that can't easily be expressed in ordinary language.