Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984) & Gregorio Prieto Muñoz (1897-1992) both were artists in the so-called “generación del 27” (generation of '27). Federico García Lorca is considered to be the greatest representative of this generation, but it was generally composed of Spanish artists (mostly poets, playwrights and painters) that began to have some remarkable artistic-cultural significance around 1927.
They met in Madrid, in 1924, wherein intellectual groups were beginning to be formed by the artists from their generation, and exchanged letters for several uninterrupted decades since then.
Vicente Aleixandre was a poet born in Sevilla, Andalucía. He is remarkably famous for his poetry, and especially for La Destrucción O el Amor, a poetry book published in 1935. He has an association dedicated to divulging and promoting his work and heritage, the Asociación de Amigos de Vicente Aleixandre (AAVA). He is also featured in lots of other organizations and museums, as he was close friends with several other artists of his generation, such as Federico García Lorca.
Vicente Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. To this day, he is one of the 7 Spaniards to have ever won a Nobel Prize, and one of the 5 to win it in the Literature section. He is considered a grand representative of Spanish literature from 1927 onwards.
Gregorio Prieto was a painter, poet, photographer and writer born in Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real. He's famous mostly for his paintings, such as El centro del mundo (Homenaje a la antigüedad) (1965). There was also a windmill museum built in his honor at his hometown., as well as a State-funded organization to divulge and promote his work.
Prieto's organization serves as an archive for all of his work. He received the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1982 and is considered a major influence in Spanish surrealism and cubism.