text: One of this artist's recurring symbols was inspired by a childhood incident in which he witnessed a dead bat being devoured.
full_question: One of this artist's recurring symbols was inspired by a childhood incident in which he witnessed a dead bat being devoured. In one of his paintings, fingers protrude from the earth while holding a cracked egg from which a flower grows, although the crack also appears to be the flower's shadow. This painter of The (*) Metamorphosis of Narcissus often used ants to symbolize decay, and he included a small portrait of his wife Gala in The Hallucinogenic Toreador. He also painted "The Disintegration of" an earlier painting, which he claimed was inspired by Camembert cheese and not Einstein's theory of relativity. For 10 points, name this Catalan surrealist who painted melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory.
first_sentence: One of this artist's recurring symbols was inspired by a childhood incident in which he witnessed a dead bat being devoured.
raw_answer: Salvador Dalí