I had no idea that artist Dali and poet Lorca were friends and lovers, or that Lorca was murdered at 38 by Spanish nationalists during the Spanish Civil War and dumped in an unmarked grave. Here’s Lorca’s profile from the Academy of American Poets. This movie, Little Ashes, is apparently already out. Anyone seen it? How did I miss it? Looks gorgeous. It’s playing at Living Room Theaters, where movies are $5 on Mon and Tues. Who wants to go? Tuesday, let’s say? 7:45.
(Seen Twilight? Me neither. The actor who plays Dali is apparently head vampire in it.)
I have to admit, Dali just doesn’t hit me hard. The one thing that I saw and immediately felt was the Lobster Telephone at the Tate a few years ago. It’s one of Dali’s sillier works (I dislike his gore) of a black rotary telephone with a plastic lobster glued across the handset. It’s hilarious. I think about it all the time when new techy gadgets are released.
But I had no idea about La Generacion del 27, the name for the surrealist group of Spanish artists that included Dali, Lorca, and a filmaker named Bunuel in addition to other poets.