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= = 'Sot Construction with Boiled Beans' By Salvadore Dali
 * Soft Construction with Boiled Beans by Salvadore Dali **

Dali's surrealist painting ‘Soft Construction with Boiled Beans’ highlights the grotesque and gruesome image of the Spanish Civil War, and the constant physical and emotional self-harming that Spain inflicts on herself during the period of 1936-1939. Shown in the oil on canvas painting is a dismembered figure that represents Spain in state of Civil War.

Dalí's message is ambiguous and a-political, reflecting his belief that the Spanish Civil War was an inevitable occurrence involving instinctual forces, a "phenomenon of natural history," rather than a political event in which one had to take sides. Taking his cue from the work of his compatriot Francisco de Goya, Dalí instead adopted the clinical detachment of a scientist or neutral observer who does not flinch from representing the rotting stench of a decomposing body, its face racked in pain, as a metaphor for his country's inexorable slide into internecine combat. The artist believed that his savage image of Spain ripping itself to pieces prophetically foretold the reciprocal killings and atrocities committed by both sides in this bloody conflict, as he later explained, "the Spanish corpse was soon to let the world know what its guts smelled like." [|[1]]

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