Soft Construction with Boiled Beans - Premonition of Civil War, 1936 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania USAOriginal Size: 100 x 99 cm


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Description
Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
Museum Quality
+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-10 Weeks
Creation Process
We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.
We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.
High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Salvador Dali also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-10 weeks to complete the process.
In case the delivery date needs to be extended in time, or we are overloaded with requests, there will be an email sent to you sharing the new timelines of production and delivery.
TOPofART wants to remind you to keep patient, in order to get you the highest quality, being our mission to fulfill your expectations.
We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
Also, there are postal restrictions, regarding the size of the shipment.
Additionally, due to the dimensions of the stretched canvas, the shipment price may exceed the price of the product itself.
You can stretch and frame your painting in your local frame-shop.
Delivery
Once the painting Soft Construction with Boiled Beans - Premonition of Civil War is ready and dry, it will be shipped to your delivery address. The canvas will be rolled-up in a secure postal tube.
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Additional Information
Dalí’s palette significantly contributes to the painting’s unsettling impact. Muted earthy tones, starkly contrasted by luminous blues and sickly greens, amplify a sense of decay and distress. The juxtaposition of vibrant sky against the fleshly pallor emphasizes the disturbing incongruity central to Dalí's technique, inviting the viewer into a deeply psychological confrontation. These deliberately discordant color choices reinforce the underlying themes of fragmentation and despair, conjuring a profound visual unease.
The technical mastery exhibited by Dalí is evident in his refined, precise brushwork. He manipulates oil paint to create unnervingly smooth textures, seamlessly merging realism with hallucinatory distortion. His method, rooted deeply in meticulous draftsmanship and traditional techniques, paradoxically underpins the chaotic subject matter. This disciplined execution serves to heighten the emotional resonance of the piece, foregrounding its intense psychodynamic tension.
Compositionally, Dalí orchestrates a complex interaction of form and void. The sprawling limbs direct the eye in an unsettling loop, perpetually circling the fragmented anatomy. The carefully placed beans, small yet potent elements, introduce irrational shifts in scale, thus underlining the surrealist impulse to explore subconscious anxieties. Crucially, the minuscule portrait of Freud inspecting a grotesque, gnarled hand subtly anchors the composition, acknowledging psychoanalytic explorations and grounding Dalí’s vision in contemporary intellectual currents.
Historically contextualized, this painting is prophetic, created as Spain hovered on the brink of civil war. Dalí translates this turmoil into a macabre self-destruction, presciently visualizing the catastrophic consequences of ideological and political schism. His surrealist imagery, harnessed from the psychological theories popularized by Freud, articulates the collective dread permeating pre-war Spain, capturing a profound psychic disintegration mirrored by societal collapse.

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