The perspective of this painting is critical to its meaning. Most importantly, the clock faces seem to reflect the color blue, as well. The finite shares features with the infinite. The infinite sky and sea are blue and recognized. The theme of this painting is evident in both the title and the repeated imagery of melting clocks. Was this creature once from the sea or more related to the human viewer? A stark plank devoid of purpose, or purpose unknown. What remains, a stark table with a dead tree. The sparsity is what draws the viewer to each individual object. The actual objects in the painting are not many. The theme of the infinite is explored by the structure of this painting. Cliffs devoid of vegetation (life), yet a hint of blue, is this water? Is there hope of life? If so this is the only hope for all else the time for hope has come and gone. Then the beach, not infinite as it is void of all features. The structure of the painting relates a horizon which displays an infinite sky joining the infinite sea. Possibly, the half-face (that is most center in the painting) represents the viewer, and the melting clocks represent the passage of time. The composition of the painting is not centered, but rather spatial displacement of melting clocks surrounding a suggestion of a face that is immersed in this panorama.
The title is the only seemingly related notion in this painting, for everything is Hence, the title of the painting is evident in the feelings that this painting elicits.
The feelings that this painting brings out in the viewer include nostalgia, and also a dream-like confusion. "Artistic Analysis of Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory"
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