Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) is a 1936 painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the work, which shows a grotesque, self-strangling human form built from distended limbs, to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, painting it only about six months before the conflict actually began. He later claimed the painting as evidence that his subconscious mind had prophetic power, though some historians have suggested he may have altered the title after the war started to strengthen that claim.
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Dalí painted it in 1936, but there are studies dating back to 1934.
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The painting is oil on canvas
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is located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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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 s
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
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