Focus on Basket of Bread and discuss the abstract.
Basket of Bread (1945) or Basket of Bread-Rather Death Than Shame is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a heel of a loaf bread in a basket, sitting near the edge of a table.  Dalí's use of bread in his paintings is said to contain messages about the political context at the time of the painting, his progression as an artist, and his societal beliefs.
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