{"id":9032,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/lugar\/el-rinconcillo\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:25:45","slug":"el-rinconcillo","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/el-rinconcillo\/","title":{"rendered":"El Rinconcillo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rarely has such a small space generated so many groundbreaking ideas or given rise to so much literature and studies as the literary gathering of El Rinconcillo<\/a>, a few square meters under the staircase leading to the upper floor of the Alameda cafe, an establishment now demolished whose lot is now occupied, just as it was, by the restaurant Chikito. <\/strong> Its founders were the young editors of the magazine Andaluc\u00eda 1915<\/em>, an imitation of Espa\u00f1a 1915<\/em>, a magazine launched in Madrid to highlight the change of era that took place after the Great War.<\/p>\n

The participants in the gathering chose the Caf\u00e9 Alameda as the venue, a place frequented by disparate people who varied according to the time of day. At the back of the caf\u00e9, behind the small stage where a string quintet with piano performed, there was “a large corner with two or three tables with comfortable couches against the wall” in which the young frequenters of the caf\u00e9 set up their headquarters. After a failed attempt to baptize the nook as La Ara\u00f1a, it finally became what it was, El Rinconcillo.<\/p>\n

In the early years, Federico was the only musician in the gathering, until 1918 when he surprised everyone with his first book, ‘Impressions and Landscapes’<\/em>, whose writing he kept secret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The current entrance is facing the same direction as the original, and the owners have placed a sculpture of Lorca in the space where the lighthearted members of the tertulia used to sit. In summer, the meeting expanded under the gigantic trees of the Campillo Square that have survived all the urban development.<\/p>\n

\"Plaque<\/a>
Plaque commemorating El Rinconcillo in the Chikito restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

El Rinconcilllo was founded as a consequence of the decline of the Centro Art\u00edstico,<\/a> from which its younger members had separated due to its “provincialism” and its attachment to the more traditionalist plastic arts. Its most glorious period took place between 1915 and 1922; from then on, its commitment declined as many of the attendees left Granada. Some of its last members founded in 1926 the Ateneo de Granada <\/a>, which followed the path of audacity against the pomp of the Centro Art\u00edstico.<\/p>\n

Proof of the open and universal spirit of the rinconcillistas is that two of its most active members soon ended up in Paris: Manuel \u00c1ngeles Ortiz<\/a>, a disciple of Picasso, and Ismael Gonz\u00e1lez de la Serna<\/a>. Soon Federico and Francisco Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a> or the language academic Melchor Fern\u00e1ndez Almagro<\/a> were also to go to Madrid.<\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a>
Photograph by Hermenegildo Lanz of one of the literary caf\u00e9s in Granada in the 1920s frequented by young talents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although the list is long and flexible, the following were part of the gathering, either as regular or casual members: the brothers Federico and Francisco Garc\u00eda Lorca, Francisco Soriano Lapresa<\/a> (who acted as coordinator), Manuel de Falla<\/a> (musician), Hermenegildo Lanz<\/a> (designer and teacher), Juan Crist\u00f3bal <\/a>(sculptor), Jos\u00e9 Mora Guarnido<\/a> (diplomat), Constantino Ruiz Carnero<\/a> (editor of El Defensor<\/em>). Miguel Pizarro<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Navarro<\/a> (Arabist), Fernando de los R\u00edos (politician and professor), Juan Jos\u00e9 Santa Cruz<\/a> (engineer) and Antonio Gallego Bur\u00edn<\/a> (politician). Federico was, in the early years, the only musician in the tertulia, until in 1918 he surprised everyone with his first book, Impressions and Landscapes<\/em><\/a>, the writing of which he kept secret.<\/p>\n

The regular rinconcillistas were joined at the meetings by various artists visiting Granada, among them the musicians Arthur Rubinstein and Wanda Landowska and the writers H. G. Wells and Ruyard Kipling. The spirit of the tertulia members gave rise to such important projects as the Flamenco Song Contest of 1922 in the Plaza de los Aljibes<\/a>, the tributes to Isaac Alb\u00e9niz in the Alhambra, and the placing of plaques to Gautier, Glinka and Debussy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9037,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[117],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9032","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-important","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"169","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lugar"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}