Federico García Lorca

dabbled with many of the different art styles and continued to progress his artistic skills. He made a lot of connections due to his interest and involvement in a small group of artists whom which included filmmaker and Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The scene exposed Dali to many different styles and some of the greatest minds of the time such as Einstein and Stravinsky. He was later expelled from the San Fernando art school after he insulted his professor during his final…

Franco’s Spain when preparing to play this role? The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. It has always been related to a group of other plays such as Yerma and Blood Wedding, labelling them as a ‘rural trilogy’. However Lorca did not plan to include it in his trilogy of the Spanish earth, which he did not finish when he was murdered. Lorca described his play as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca’s last…

My research centers on Jorge Luis Borges and constructs a web of influences on him and his literary oeuvre through examining his many interviews. Throughout his life, Borges consented to hundreds of interviews. Rather than undertaking exhaustive research, I gathered data from nine of Borges’ most widely available interviews, largely conducted in English and issued in prominent, English-language publications. Some interviewers transcribed the interview content in the moment or from tape…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

~ We were on high alert, looking through the window all the time. ~ We kept cautioning each other along the perilous journey. (Alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution/ a warning against danger or evil; {Dictionary.com} ~ A red alert was issued in the Mediterranean and all soldiers went to battle stations and remained on full alert.( if soldiers are on full alert, they know that a situation is dangerous and are prepared to act…

slugged through the manipulative melodramas of Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, through sentimental, middle brow favorites” (Prose 76). Students in Mexico have to read their closest Spanish equivalent books by authors like Miguel de Cervantes, Federico García Lorca, and Don Juan Manuel. Books by these authors were read even when my parents were in school, and even I have to read them for my Spanish V…

on the 18th or 19th of August 1936. This play is about a woman whose name is Bernarda Alba and her 5 unmarried daughters who live with her 2 servants the head maid La Poncia who knows Bernarda very well. In this play you will see no man on stage, Lorca subtitled the play (Drama of women in the village of Spain) because the theatre scene in spain had more female actors than male one. Through this play three important themes has been explored: repression, tyranny, and power. This essay focused on…

Luis Bunuel pioneered surrealist cinema. Many of his films revolve around three themes he was fanatic about. These being, religion, class and sexual desire. These topics can be linked to Bunuel’s early years. He was born on February 22nd, 1900 in Calanda, Spain. His birthplace was of highly religious mindset as many places were in Spain. In Bunuel’s semi autobiography My Last Breath he says, “The middle ages lasted until World War I” (8). The “Miracle of Calanda” (13) was a tale in which an…

Longing for the Forbidden: Desire, a Swayed Powerful Force Existing within the Human In James Joyce’s coming-of-age short story Araby, a young Catholic Irish boy becomes strongly attracted to his friend’s sister. She asks whether he is going to Araby, an oriental bazaar, which she is unable to attend because of a retreat in her convent. To the narrator, she symbolizes the tempting idea of pleasure and change from his ordinary life. He is determined to seek her affection; therefore, he offers to…

Nominated for an oscar in the Academic Awards USA in 1995, Fresa y Chocolate ‘a hard-core political film, brimming with explicit dialogue about censorship, Marxism-Leninism, nationalism, aesthetics, and not least, sexuality’. Chanan (2004: 464). Based on a novel by Senel Paz and directed mainly by the legendary Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea, I believe that this masterpiece succeeds to mirror Cuba to the audience. David (Vladimir Cruz) is a communist student with a peasant background,…