Federico Garcia Lorca is a revered poet and martyr who was only 38 when he was assassinated at the start of the Spanish civil war in 1936 – a war that pitted families and friends against each other and is still too painful for many Spaniards to even discuss.

Near Granada’s Cathedral, a Center for art and culture was created and named in Lorca’s honor.

I found the current exhibit fascinating – it features Lorca’s works as a playwright and his collaborations with artist Hermenegildo Lanz, composer Manuel de Falla.

The three were either inspired by, or collaborated with, Russian Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stranvinsky, who composed the ballet Petrushka, around the same period of time in 1911.

The art circles seem to me to have been smaller and tighter at the time, since those who met and collaborated did so primarily between three cities: Madrid, Paris, and New York.