La Persistencia de la MemoriaGrade 2 students started learning to tell time in Spanish in December. In doing so, we talked about the painting "La Persistencia de la Memoria" - The Persistence of Memory - by Salvador Dalí. One of the elements this painting is known for is the melting clocks that are in it. We talked about how the clocks can mean that time is getting away from us or that time doesn't matter in dreams. There is another figure in the painting that is hard to decipher. Some students said they saw a dead horse, others saw a face, others saw a sheet draped over something. The truth is that there is no one right answer. The bland object in the painting can represent a lot of things. It can go along with the possible theme of dreaming in that you can't fully tell what it is, similar to objects or people in dreams. There are also ants and a fly in the painting which symbolize decay and death. This is such a well know painting that it has been replicated by The Simpsons, Spongebob, the Cookie Monster, and even Google!
Students at both schools created their own melting clocks in art class. I hope that next year we can do more with those clocks, but for this year a photo of the finished product will have to do. Below is a picture of the clocks hanging in Mrs. DiFranco's art room at Hope Valley. Below that is the original painting.
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La Autora¡Hola! My name is Dori Carpenter. I teach K-4 Spanish at Hope Valley and Ashaway Elementary Schools in the Chariho Regional School District. I began teaching high school Spanish in 2010 and have been teaching at the elementary level in Chariho since 2014. I studied Spanish and Secondary Education at Providence College and The University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Archives
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