What is Salvador dalis work about? In depth answer would be great with meaning of the persistence of memory too pls​

Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter born in 1904, one of the main exponents of modern surrealist painting. His style was based on the disruptive currents of the time, such as the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis, the use of the absurd and the exaggeration of characteristics of his paintings, which gave them a markedly surreal and psychedelic touch, distinctive of his works.

i believe their role is to instruct certain sections on when they are to join and when they are to stop

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