Impression, Marbella

Impression, Marbella, pastel, 16x20" (40x50 cm.) Marbella is an elegant and expensive beach on the South of Spain. In downtown Marbella, on the main "plaza", there are about 8 or 10 original sculptures by Salvador Dali, on a white marble walkway, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Marbella es una playa cara y elegante en el sur de Espana. En el centro, hay una esplanada de marmol blanca con unas 8 a 10 esculturas de Dali, y la vista del Mar Mediterraneo al fondo.

When Salvador Dali was a student in Madrid, in the 1920s, he met the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, and the friendship that developed between them explored modern life, and the new directions of art. They developed a "secret language" to criticize the art and artists they did not like, or they thought were too "stiff and academic, or traditional". They called this type of work "rotten art".
Cuando Salvador Dali era estudiante en Madrid en los anos 20, encontro y se hizo amigo del poeta Federico Garcia Lorca, y la amistad que se desarrollo entre ellos exploraba la vida moderna y las nuevas direcciones del arte. Ellos desarrollaron un codigo secreto para criticar el arte y los artistas que a ellos no les gustaban, o que ellos creian demasiado "anticuados, rigidos y academicos". Les llamaban "los putrefactos".