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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936
 
 
Image of Salvador Dalí<br><I>Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), </I>1936 <br>Oil on canvas <br>100 x 99 cm <br>Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950. <br>© 2006 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Salvador Dalí
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936
Oil on canvas
100 x 99 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950.
© 2006 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Salvador Dalí
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

Dalí saw the horrors of the Spanish civil war in Freudian terms--that is, as an unconscious drive toward self-destruction, motivated by our instinctual desire to commit violent acts.

“I showed a vast human body,” Dalí said of this painting, “breaking out into monstrous excrescences of arms and legs tearing at one another in a delirium of auto-strangulation.”


Page 19 of 21 | On the next page: Grupo Austral (Antoni Bonet, Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy).
BKF Chair, 1938-1939