Word: lorca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balmy April evening in 1924, Federico Garcia Lorca, then studying at the University of Madrid, dropped in at an exhibition of paintings and drawings by a young artist named Gregorio Prieto. Already acclaimed as a poet of merit, Lorca also enjoyed sketching. But much to his dismay, the friends who hung on his every word dismissed his every line. In Prieto, he found someone who could appreciate his art as well as his poetry. After the show the two visited Prieto's atelier, then went on to Lorca's room. There the poet took a drawing titled...
...Saroyan failure matters scarcely at all, however, because the final piece, Garcia Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimpin for Belisa in the Garden, is nearly perfect. It is utterly compact; the depth and the texture of the fantasy are established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes...
...Guinovart, 37, is a Barcelona favorite who started with social realism, then did stage décor for García Lorca plays. The stocky artist turned to collages, attaching everyday apparel to his somber canvases. His Homage to Valdés Leal attempts to express the tremendous force of a 17th century artist in a volcanic surface that belches up actual objects...
TEATRO ESPANOL in Spain's pavilion has sparkling performances by Rosa Durán and the Zambra flamenco dancers, and Virtuosos Antonio Gades, Manuela Vargas, and Nana Lorca. It is the best entertainment at the fair, and only...
...Lorca Five Plays...