THE PAINTING OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: SOFT CONSTRUCTION WITH BOILED BEANS
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Salvador Dalí, a key figure in 20th-century Surrealism, created Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War, a significant work that uses Surrealist visual language to depict the destructive impact of the Spanish Civil War. The composition conveys social disintegration by depicting bodily fragmentation and internal conflict, serving as a metaphor for the collapse of a nation torn apart by civil strife. Rather than offering a literal representation of historical events, the work critically interprets the war through symbolic and metaphorical imagery. This research aims to analyze the interpretation of the social tragedy stemming from the Spanish Civil War by investigating the relationship between the artwork and its historical context. The primary focus of the study is to investigate the interaction between the artist's individual perspective and the social and historical realities of the period, to evaluate the role of Dalí's artistic stance in shaping the representation of the subject, and to analyze the metaphors employed in the work to reveal its multilayered meanings.
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