Why Do Artists Durin Prior To The Spanish Civil War?

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. Initially a military coup failed to win control of the entire country, instead a bloody civil war was ensued, fought with all might on both sides. The war was an outcome of a polarization of Spanish life and politics that had been built up over the previous years. In response to the ruthlessness and violence caused by the Spanish Civil War many people converted their time and energy to the arts; essentially using it as a tool to promote the political and social unrest that was caused during the war. Therefore, the war united a generation of writers, poets, and the overall flourish of artists …show more content…
From the beginning of the arising problems within Spain, painters began to revert their time to art to express the arising conflict. One of the most famous paintings created before the initial beginning of the war is Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
(premonition of a civil war) 1936. When dali painted this masterpiece the Spanish Civil War had not yet begun. He completed this painting around six months before General Franco's racist army unseated the elected socialist government of the Second Spanish Republic. He began studying for this painting during 1935, he started off by sketching a hideously deformed anatomy of a colossal creature; this creature destroying itself, and its face twisted in grimace of both triumph and torture. This painting was intended to depict the rising conflict that caused an outbreak of the war. He employs his “paranoiac critical method’ in the painting by contouring the massive limbs into an outline of Spain.
Regarding one of the most notorious events of the Spanish Civl War was the German bombing of the defenceless Basque town of Guernica. The perpetuators of the raid were