"Ode to Salvador Dalí" and “Honey is sweeter than blood”

Abstract

The text demonstrates the intersection of the biographies of a specific period of Federico García Lorca’s poetic production and of Salvador Dalí’s pictorial work with an emphasis on Lorca’s poem ‘Ode to Salvador Dalí’ and Dalí’s picture ‘Honey is sweeter than blood’. Therefore it is possible to explain some of the various symbolic elements present in the origins of surrealism and in the painter’s and the poet’s respective works.