Dali’s melting watches.
This picture is indeed one of the phases that represents Dali; but its use to characterize Dali’s work is to so diminish his body of work. His surrealism extended to much more beautiful and realistic images;
His work went beyond surrealism to mystical realism:
with a skill that equaled the great masters of earlier centuries.
People often talk about the different periods of Picasso or Matisse, but Dali has been reduced to a single painting.