Soft Construction With Boiled Beans By Salvador Dali

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premontion of Civil War) was painted by Salvador Dali in 1936 in Spanish. The type of the painting is oil on canvas. The dimensions are 100cm x 99cm.The location of the painting is Philadelphia Musesum of Art, Philadelphia.

The painting was a surrealist art work.This art work was one of the most radical of Salvador Dali art career.It showed the outbreak of the Spanish civil war was caused by fear.This painting was to predict the unrest erupted in Spain.It was an early sign for the massacre in Spain.At that time,everyone consumed one another.In fact,the horror of the Spanish civil war was tragic and atrocious.Even so,the artist was already know that the war was imminent,and created this painting.The fragmented
monsters were the main character of the painting.This painting was drawn by a thigh and born from the limb of the other leg.Those two monsters tried to tear others body parts.There were some broken body below,one was a foot and one was a big toe.The background of the painting was an empty desert.It showed that the Spanish civil war was the lead of national empty,liked a dead city.Those beans on the ground were fade and stepping on these crops giant was the protagonist of this art work.The limbs and organs of the monsters were formed in an eerie space frame.The artist drew the country fell apart like those body organs of the monsters metaphorcally.This was a metaphor of Spasin that they did not come together for the sake of national survival, but tackle each other.It represented the conflict between the government and the political parties.Although there was no clear paint to describe the war,but with another kind of expression form of indictment of the citizen and expressed the fear.In the centre of the painting,there were some strange and tall rocks standing in the front.Those rocks represented every parts and organs of a human body.The artist drew a wrong proportion of the structures of those rocks deliberately.The reason was to show the chaos of the Spanish civil war, just as the rocks of the painting.At the top of the painting,there was a head of the rock.The expression of the head showed really painful.Those facial features were knitted together.There were some veins on the neck of the head.It seem like there was a ferocious pain.Those expressions revealed that the Spanish civil war would make people felt painful and sad.Besides the foot of the rock was drawn in the position of the hand,and the chest of the stone was gripped by one hand.That makes me feel that the Spanish civil war is horrible.The hands of the rock was in the bottom of the painting.They supported the whole heavy body of those rocks.It showed very unbalanced and those rocks would collapse very soon,just liked the collapse of the city.Those represented the huge crisis that Spain was facing.On the other hand,the artist used rocks to combine with human body.This makes me feel that those people who participated in the war were as cold as marble.It was associate with the Spanish civil war would make people feel despair.In the background of the sky was full of dark clouds and those clouds covered the sky.It showed that the future of the Spanish civil war was dark and no hope.The whole picture brought great fear.