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Dame Ragnelle

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Date: 7:24 PM, 09/23/10

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I´m planning on visiting an exhibition about two Spanish artists from our surrealist period in the 1920´s-1930s. One was a poet, the other a painter.

They fell helplessly in love when they met as young college students in Madrid, two brilliant talents who joined forces to modernize the Spanish artistic scene with their revolutionary views.

Unfortunately the facists killed the gay poet during our civil war. His name was Federico García Lorca. His beloved friend was Salvador Dalí.

Just wanted to share in case you´re interested in this kind of thing…(please bear with me or just ignore me, I understand I can be such a bore sometimes, LOL!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Here´s a recent movie about the friendship that united Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel (a surrealist film director) in Madrid in the 1920´s. Those were the days...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104083/

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Dame Ragnelle

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Date: 7:36 PM, 09/23/10

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Ok, I just can´t help myself, LOL! Lorca was very impressed when he visited NYC in 1929. He wrote a book entitled Poet in New York. Here´s a link to some excerpts translated into English. It´s just a tiny glimpse. Bear in mind his imagery is surrealist... The book is superb, and it resonates with me in a very special way... I used to admired all this Surrealist and Dadaist people who wanted to break free from any kind of convention... http://bigspace.vega.net/poet_in_ny/poet_in_ny.htm http://www.artofeurope.com/lorca/lor1.htm -- Edited by Dame Ragnelle on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 07:37:16 PM -- Edited by Dame Ragnelle on Thursday 23rd of September 2010 07:49:31 PM __________________ Loathly Lady craves sovereignty

Lula Argante

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Date: 11:02 AM, 09/24/10

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Mmm so many yummies here for us this morning m'lady! Please never feel the need to apologize for being passionate about anything! And I for one enjoy these sharings immensely! I love the richness and potency of Lorca's poetry, and crazy though this sounds... I find it quite surprisingly logical for a surrealist...far less psychedelic than some of the possible dreamscapes and bizarre explorations I sometimes associate with Surrealists! But that may be because my imagination easily responds to and adores kaleidoscopic linguistic imagery! (and how i wish I could come up with something any way near it! ) very very inspiring...Oh god his writing really is beautiful. Dali is perhaps more well known across the world do you think?, but possibly not his slightly more subtle works... I'll try to dig out some pics of paintings of his that at first surprised me in a delightful way. Dali was much bigger in my own life in my more 'experimental' late teens early twenties...when his dreamscape mind binding art work was just the thing! Hope you enjoy your exhibitions, and look forward to hearing about your experiences dear Dame! My last visit to an exhibition in your country was to the Picasso museum when I was a child, I recall sitting under one painting for nearly an hour i was so affected by it...but then missed much of the rest of the exhibition! __________________

Dame Ragnelle

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Date: 3:57 PM, 10/03/10

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Lula, in my opinion (very personal opinion) Dali was a charming cynical guy, while Lorca was someone who was wearing his heart on his sleeve. He really suffered, that´s why his poetry could never be totally "off the wall" and his surrealist streak was not very radical. In fact, that was why they split up, over creative differences. Apparently Dali accused Lorca of surrendering to the "putrid" powers that be, he was too conventional for his high standards. While the truth is, Lorca never, ever capitulated. While Dali became an enfant terrible by the book, all the time making big bucks. Dali went to Paris and joined a cerebral type of surrealism and became a success, while Lorca was plagued by self-doubt and when he visited NYC and Cuba all he could do was just spill his very guts on his poems. Then he unfortunately signed his own death warrant when he returned to Spain. The facists were awaiting him to make him a scapegoat. I love both approaches. So did you visit the Picasso Museum in Barcelona? Wonderful place, isn´t it? Beautiful gothic architecture encasing modern paintings. __________________ Loathly Lady craves sovereignty