Dimensions: 60 x 50 cm
signed l.d. :'Timo'
Signed on the reverse: 'Figielek'
Literature
"When a man sits for an hour with a pretty girl, it seems to him that it was a minute. But let him sit for a minute on a hot stove, and it will seem to him longer than any hour. And that's what relativity is."
Albert Einstein (https://studiotelewizyjne.pl/cytaty-alberta-einsteina_dzkm.a).
Salvador Dalí's greatest creation was himself. When he was six years old, he wanted to be a cook (necessarily in the female form), a year later he dreamed of being Napoleon. It can be concluded that from childhood he was driven not so much by ambition as by megalomania. Eventually, he stated that he just wanted to be Salvador Dalí and had no bigger dream. Dalí is now seen primarily as a leading representative of Surrealism. Members of this group used the method of automatism, a practice based on free creation, uncontrolled by the world. The creation of a work of art was to depend on the spontaneous movement of the hand, and automatism became the best way to express hidden thoughts and corners of the human psyche. Based on this method, Dalí came up with his own, which he called "paranoid-critical." According to the artist, it was supposed to be "a spontaneous method of irrational cognition, based on the critical interpretation of delusions." The artist claimed that he would fall asleep with a heavy wrench in his hand, when the wrench hit the plate set by the bed, the artist would half-asleep start creating his original works. The Spanish painter's paintings are characterized by a surprising juxtaposition, on the one hand we find realistically depicted objects and places, while on the other hand they are juxtaposed with dreamy illusions and deformations.
One of Salvador Dalí's most recognizable and surrealist paintings is "Persistence of Memory," sometimes titled as "Persistence of Memory" or "Soft Clocks." This work is not only a symbol of surrealism, but also of pop culture. Its main motif is melting clocks with a circular shape, which are shown against the background of a realistically depicted seascape. Over the bright blue surface of the sea there is a bright yellow glow as if the sun is setting.
It is not difficult to see a lot of similarities in the iconic painting by the Spanish surrealist and the work by David Figielk.
Here, too, there are clocks whose dials show different hours. Perhaps this is a reference to the relativity of time, as discussed by Albert Einstein. Below, we see sea waves, agitated, foaming. David Figielek is the undisputed master of painting nautical images. Between the thicket of clocks and the agitated sea we can see the figure of a man. He is standing with his back to us, looking at the clocks, his head poked up, looking in the direction of the largest clock, which, in addition to its size, is also distinguished by its color. It is orange, the rest of the timepieces are in shades of sea. Which brings us back to the "ocean of time," but also again to the painting "Persistence of Memory." It features four clocks. The orange timepiece lying next to it seems tougher and less melting than the others. It has been swarmed by ants, which Dalí is said to have been very afraid of as a child. The orange clock looks as if it is about to be eaten by insects. Ants here are a symbol of decay, decomposition. In Figure, the orange clock has fuzzy borders, with a fiery glow hovering over it. It seems to be on fire. The painting seems to have the message "there is no time to waste." In conclusion, it is again worth quoting Einstein: "Our actions should arise from the realization that human beings are not free in their thoughts, feelings and actions, but bound by relationships as are the stars in their movements."
Biography
He graduated from the State High School of Fine Arts in 1999, and completed his higher education in Gorzow Wielkopolski. His works, signed with the pseudonym "Timorinelt", are in domestic and foreign collections. Today he lives and creates in Gorzow Wielkopolski.