Federico García Lorca poet". He wrote: "The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I'm not. I don't want to be typecast". Growing estrangement between García Lorca and his closest friends reached its climax when surrealists Dalí and Luis Buñuel collaborated on their 1929 film "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"). García Lorca interpreted it, perhaps erroneously, as a vicious attack upon himself. At this time Dalí also met his
Happy Days (play) this way but we never discover how she came to be trapped so. A number of suggestions have been put forth to explain where the idea for the original imagery originated. James Knowlson has suggested images from Luis Buñuel’s 1928 film, "Un chien andalou" or a photograph by Angus McBean of Frances Day. Beckett required the set to have "a maximum of simplicity and symmetry" with a "very pompier trompe-l'oeil backcloth to represent unbroken plain and sky receding to meet in far distance". "What should characterise [the] whole scene, sky and earth", he wrote, "is a pathetic unsuccessful realism, the