Antonio Lopez Garcia (en Ingles)

Biography:

Antonio Lopez is the oldest of four children ( Josephine, Diogenes and Carmen). His parents were yeomanry Castilian town of La Mancha Tomelloso home was located on the street Domecq. His early vocation for drawing and the influence of his uncle , the painter Antonio López Torres, shaped his decision to devote himself to painting .

In 1949 he moved to Madrid to prepare for membership in the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando , where he met artists like Enrique Gran, Amalia Avia , Lucio Muñoz , with whom he formed what has come to call Madrid School. He remained at the Academy between 1950 and 1955. In 1955 , thanks to a scholarship , he traveled to Italy, where he learned firsthand the Italian Renaissance painting . And suffered a slight disappointment to watch live the masterpieces that knew only reproductions, and hitherto worshiped . He began to revalue the Spanish classic painting, he knew so well , thanks to the frequent visits to the Prado , especially Velázquez Diego .

After graduating made his first solo exhibitions in 1957 and 1961 in Madrid, while working both in this city and in the village where he was born . In 1961 he was united in marriage to fellow painter Maria Moreno, from which union were born two daughters : Mary Carmen in 1962 and in 1965. From the latter year until 1969 he was professor in charge of the preparatory Colorful Chair in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando .

In 1985 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. In 1990 the film director Victor Erice 's Dream of Light filmed , film in which the creative process of the artist painting a quince collected while the backyard . In January 1993 he was appointed Fellow of Madrid's Royal Academy of San Fernando and in that same year, the Reina Sofia Museum dedicated a retrospective exhibition .

In 2006 he received the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize . In 2008 , the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston dedicated a monográfica.1 exposure also his work from Torres Blancas Madrid reached at auction at Christie's in London on € 1.918 million , the highest amount paid to date by a work of a Spanish artist vivo.2

In 2011, Thyssen -Bornemisza and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao have dedicated paths exhibitions with works of all stages, although most of his latest production . In 2012 the Association of Municipalities of Campo de Calatrava was awarded the prize Raimundo FITERO at Castle Bolaños de Calatrava in recognition of his career.

Recognition and influence

During most of his career, Antonio López García worked amidst an artistic culture dominated first by abstraction and later by conceptual currents. In the 1960s and the 1970s, his prestige quietly grew. It is possible to establish links between his work and the new European figurative tendencies or the American hyperrealism.

López Garcia

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