How does Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) elucidate its Salvador Dalí and the Spanish Civil War?
Dalí and his wife, Gala, were trapped in the middle of a general strike and an armed uprising by Catalan separatists in Catalonia in 1934, an incident which may have influenced his Spanish Civil War motif. Salvador and Gala escaped to Paris, where they were married.Dalí and Gala had hired an escort to take them safely to Paris, but the escort died on his return because of the stresses of the Spanish Civil War. When Dalí finally returned home, his house in Port Lligat had been destroyed in the war. He was also greatly affected because his friend, Federico García Lorca, was executed in the war and his sister Ana Maria was imprisoned and tortured.
Federico García Lorca Catalonia Port Lligat Gala Spanish Salvador Dalí Spanish Civil War Paris