Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)

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painting surrealist painting

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) is a 1936 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a grotesque, self-destructive figure as an allegory of the horrors and internal conflict of the Spanish Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting ⓘ
surrealist painting ⓘ
artHistoricalContext European avant-garde ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
collection Philadelphia Museum of Art collection ⓘ
colorPalette browns ⓘ
earth tones ⓘ
muted yellows ⓘ
countryOfExhibition United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
countryOfOrigin Spain ⓘ
creator Salvador Dalí ⓘ
depictionType figurative abstraction ⓘ
depicts allegory of the Spanish Civil War ⓘ
grotesque self-destructive figure ⓘ
horrors of war ⓘ
internal conflict ⓘ
genre allegorical painting ⓘ
hasEffect evokes psychological tension ⓘ
evokes sense of dismemberment ⓘ
evokes sense of violence ⓘ
hasPart barren landscape ⓘ
boiled beans ⓘ
cloudy sky ⓘ
contorted limbs ⓘ
dismembered body ⓘ
inception 1936 ⓘ
inspiredBy Spanish Civil War ⓘ
languageOfWork none ⓘ
location Philadelphia Museum of Art ⓘ
mainSubject Spanish Civil War ⓘ
materialUsed oil paint ⓘ
movement Surrealism ⓘ
notableFor political allegory in Surrealism ⓘ
use of food imagery as symbolism ⓘ
violent contortions of a single body ⓘ
partOf Salvador Dalí oeuvre ⓘ
significantWorkOf Salvador Dalí ⓘ
style dreamlike composition ⓘ
hyperrealistic detail ⓘ
support canvas ⓘ
theme civil conflict ⓘ
human suffering ⓘ
political violence ⓘ
premonition of war ⓘ
self-destruction ⓘ
title Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) self-link ⓘ

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Salvador Dalí → notableWork → Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) ⓘ
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) → title → Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) self-link ⓘ