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Basket of Bread
Basket of Bread (1945) or Basket of Bread-Rather Death Than Shame is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The painting depicts a heel of a loaf bread in a basket, sitting near the edge of a table. Dalí's use of bread in his paintings is much more than a staple of one's diet. In this case, to understand Dalí's message, one must look at the political context at the time of the painting, his progression as an artist, his societal
beliefs and how bread is used in the painting.
Progression and comparison to "The Basket of Bread" (1926).
Dalí has used bread in many of his paintings, he explains:
At 22, Dalí spent four months on the 1926 painting "The Basket of Bread", of which he explains: "by the power of its density, the fascination of its immobility, creates the mystical, paroxysmic feeling of a situation beyond our ordinary notion of the real. We are at the borderline of