Ideas in which we can learn from the painting about IJ... (1 Viewer)

[55psi]

Hey guys, for all u art people out there, im having trouble to think of 2 other points in which the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali helps us to learn about Imaginative Journeys.

So far ive got, we can learn that visuals can create the basis of the responders IJ by having some sort of perception of the surreal imagery.
And, we can learn that time can be insignificant from the artists journey and therefore time is insignificant for the responders empathetic IJ. (something like that..?)

Any help please?..

Jason

 

[l-mercedes-l]

images like this are great because theyre loaded with implied meaning. However we need to use our imagination to extrapolate on the connotations of various elements of the image to understand it.

Becasue we have to apply our imagination to make any sense of this journey, it is for US an imaginative journey.

You've asked how the painting can lead to learning, which is a difficult question. My understanding is that the visual forces us to reconsider our perception of [in this example] time, which requires purely imaginative thinking and leads us to other ideas we have about time, eg travel, stretching time and the inevitable passing of time. this image confronts us to see time as a physical and interchangeable thing which is fundamentally different to the way WE, in our SOCIETY see time. For us time is a fixed entity that we live our lives by.

IF we have to draw on our imagination and intelligence to reconsider how we think/feel about the cumulation of things in this image than the painting is an effective imaginative journey. It dosent matter what point of view we come out of the experience with, the fact that we can think differently about time implies that we have learned something and become more intelligent beings.

Unlike reading text and just comphrehending it, images challenge us to be intelligent in the way we think about it. We need to imaginatively consider each element and mentally integrate lots and lots of different ideas weve gathered during our lives to form one solid idea and understanding of what the painter/artist is getting at.

Without the imaginatation, this imagery is purposeless and hold no implicit meaning. Without imagination it is devoid of value. Hence we need imagination to make experiences meaningful and to understand visual [and otherwise] stimulus.

I hope this answers your question