| Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:SalvadorDali-SoftConstructionWithBeans.jpg) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) | |
| Artist | Salvador Dalí |
| Year | 1936 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100 cm × 99 cm (39+5⁄16 in × 39+3⁄8 in) |
| Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
| Owner | The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection |
| Website | Museum listing |
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the piece to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, having painted it only six months before the conflict began. He subsequently claimed that he was aware the war was going to occur long before it began, and cited his work as evidence of "the prophetic power of his subconscious mind." However, some have speculated that Dalí may have changed the name of the painting after the war to emphasize his prophetic assertions, although it is not entirely certain.[1][2]
The art historian Robert Hughes commented on Dalí's painting in his biography of Goya, stating: "Salvador Dalí appropriated the horizontal thigh of Goya's crouching Saturn for the hybrid monster in the painting Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, ... which—rather than Picasso's Guernica—is the finest single work of visual art inspired by the Spanish Civil War."[3]
- ^ "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) | Educational Resources". philamuseum.org. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, 1936 by Salvador Dali". Salvador Dali Paintings, Biography, and Quotes. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ Hughes, Robert; Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de (2004). Goya (3rd ed.). Knopf. p. 383. ISBN 9780394580289. Retrieved 2 October 2023.