
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) & Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) both were artists in the so-called “generación del 27” (generation of '27). Federico García Lorca himself 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.
Lorca & Dalí attended the same prestigious university, Residencia de Estudiantes (founded in 1910) in Madrid. They met there in 1923, alongside another man who would become a close mutual friend of theirs, Luis Buñuel.
Lorca was in love with Dalí throughout all of their friendship. His letters to Dalí are often referred to as "letters of seduction".
Federico García Lorca was a poet and playwright born in Granada, Andalucía (where his childhood home is now a museum dedicated to him). He's known for both his poetry and theater, as he's composed several essential pieces in Spanish history. Poems like Romance sonámbulo and plays like La casa de Bernarda Alba continue to have a great influence in Spanish art history to this day.
Federico García Lorca was also famously killed during the Spanish Civil War. He was executed by the francoists for being Republican (opposed to the right-wing francoist reinstitution of monarchy, and Franco’s dictatorship in general) and for being openly homosexual. He was turned in by the extremely rightoid politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso and was killed the 18th of August 1936.
Lorca is considered to be one of the greatest representatives of LGBTQ+ artists in Spanish and global history.
Salvador Dalí was a painter and artist born in Figueres, Cataluña. He's known for several of his paintings, and he's considered to be one of the greatest representatives of the artistic current of surrealism, and also cubism. He is particularly famous for his painting La Persistencia de la Memoria (1931), casually known as "The melting clocks"; and also El Gran Masturbador (1929).
He got married to his wife, Gala Dalí, in 1932 — she was also a surrealist painter, much like him. They greatly influenced each other's life, perspectives, and art.