Soft Construction with Boiled Beans is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Dali made this painting to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Dali painted this 6 months before the Spanish Civil War had even begun and then claimed that he had known the War was going to happen in order to appear to have prophet-like abilities due to "the prophetic power of his subconscious mind," Dali may have changed the name of the painting after the war in a manner of proving this prophetic quality, though it is not entirely certain. This is a painting made with oil on canvas that... is located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dali painted it in 1936, but there were studies found of it that dated back to 1934. It is a picture of a geometric monster type creature and connected to a similar monster. The two creatures appear to be two parts of the same creature so that it appears to be wrestling itself. All over the background and on parts of the monster are boiled beans that look like they are melting. The monster stands on trees and a brown wooden box. The background is a blue sky with clouds, that are darker in some parts and lighter in others.
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