Modern and Contemporary Art Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
(Premonition of Civil War)Made in Spain, Europe Salvador Dalí,
Spanish, 1904 - 1989 Oil on canvas Currently not on view
1950-134-41The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
LabelWith its flair for detail as gruesome as it is meticulous,
Salvador Dalí's Surrealist painting style might well have been
invented for the depiction of the unique horrors of the Spanish
Civil War. This painting, however, is one of only a handful in
which Dalí turned his attention to the tragedy that beset his
homeland on July 17, 1936, when General Francisco Franco led a
military coup d'état against the democratically elected Popular
Front government. The artist's savage vision of his country as a
decomposing figure tearing itself apart preceded the outbreak of
the Spanish Civil War and thus prophetically foretold the
atrocities committed during this bloody conflict. Social Tags
[?]abstracted reality [x] civil war [x] looking to write [x]
painterly [x] subconscious