Salvador – Salvador Dalí and The Persistence of Memory
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Salvador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory
Salvador is a Monquistan who has traveled to Conatus. He is worried about the effect Novus is having on aspects of Time itself. He takes you to the Tent of Time where every clock is melting. Every clock brought to Novus is melting. It is up to your wizard to solve the problem.
It is unclear what (if any) connection Salvador has to Dolly Salvador, the Professor at Pigswick Academy.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC (May 11, 1904 – January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Dalí’s artistic repertoire included painting, sculpture, film, graphic arts, animation, fashion, and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays, and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art, popular culture, and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí’s work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as “The Melting Clocks”, “The Soft Watches” or “The Melting Watches”.
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí’s theory of “softness” and “hardness”, which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Adès wrote, “The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order”. This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun.
The year prior to painting the Persistence of Memory, Dali developed his “paranoiac-critical method,” deliberately inducing psychotic hallucinations to inspire his art. He remarked, “The difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.” This quote highlights Dali’s awareness of his mental state. Despite his engagement in activities that could be seen as insane, Dali maintained that he was not actually mad.
The current list of all the (known) Novus references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Salvador image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Salvador Dalí image is borrowed from Wikipedia. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress‘s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c16608. It is in the Public Domain.
The Persistence of Memory is borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art website. © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí
Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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