Antonio López García

Antonio López García (born January 6, 1936 in Tomelloso , province of Ciudad Real ) is a Spanish sculptor and painter of realism .

Life

“Día” by Antonio López

López García was born a few months before the Spanish Civil War, the son of a farmer . His uncle Antonio Lopez Torres , a landscape painter, encouraged him to become a painter. At the age of 13, López García moved to Madrid and began his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando , where he graduated in 1955. In 1957 he showed his works for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Ateneo in Madrid . López García belongs to the first generation of Spanish realists.

He met Enrique Gran (1928–1999) and Lucio Muñoz (1929–1998) and was impressed by the painting of Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). A scholarship enabled him to travel to Italy with his friend and colleague Francisco López Hernández (* 1932) and study Renaissance painting .

López García has been married to the painter María Moreno (* 1933), with whom he has two daughters, since 1961 . From 1964 to 1969 he was a professor at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He lives and works in Madrid and is represented by the Marlborough Gallery .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2011: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid
• 2011: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao , Bilbao
• 2008: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Boston
• 2001: Antonio López. Hombre y Mujer . Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
• 1993: Antonio López. Painting, sculpture, drawing . Retrospective . Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
• 1985: Museum of Modern Art , Brussels , Belgium
• 1985: Antonio López García. Museo Provincial de Albacete , Albacete
• 1957: Antonio López García y su tiempo. Ateneo of Madrid

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2008: Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen , Thuringia
• 1995: 46th Venice Biennale with Antonio Saura , Eduardo Arroyo , Andreu Alfaro and Fernando Huici
• 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel

Awards (selection)

• 2014: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Murcia
• 2012: Premio Príncipe de Viana de la Cultura
• 2011: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Navarra
• 2009: Premio Penagos de Dibujo, Fundación Mapfre , Madrid
• 2006: Velázquez Prize for Fine Arts
• 2004: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 2004: Medal of Honor from the Menéndez Pelayo International University , Santander
• 2004: Art Prize of the City of Alcalá de Henares
• 1985: Prince of Asturias Prize for Art
• 1974: Wilhelm Loth Prize , Darmstadt

Movie

• Víctor Erice 1992: The light of the quince tree (El sol del membrillo) on the creative work of Antonio Lopez Garcia.

literature

• Serraller, Francisco Calvo, and Miguel Delibes. ANTONIO LOPEZ GARCIA: Paintings and Sculpture. 288 pages, roughly 200 plates, most in color. 4to, boards. New York, DAP, 2011.
• Schilling, Jürgen and Dieter Blume: Spanish Realists. 1980. Maria Moreno, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco Lopez. Exhibition catalog, 1980 Kunstverein Braunschweig
• Magical realism in Spain today: Antonio Lopez Torres, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Amalia Avia , Maria Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla , Julio López Hernández , Francisco López Hernández; 10. 9. - 28. 10. 1970, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , 1970

Web links

• Antonio López García with photographs of various works
• William Dyckes: New Spanish Realists Art International, 1973 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marlborough Galerie Antonio Lopez Garcia.Retrieved April 6, 2013
2. ^ Ateneo de Madrid: Antonio López y el Ateneo de Madrid / Destacados / El Ateneo / Inicio - Ateneo de Madrid. Retrieved November 8, 2018 (European Spanish). 
3. ↑ Buscabiografias Antonio López García Retrieved April 6, 2013
4. ↑ Velázquez 2006 Antonio López Garcia Retrieved April 6, 2013
5. ^ Premio Príncipe de Asturias.Retrieved April 6, 2013
6. ↑ The light of the quince tree El sol del membrillo.Retrieved April 6, 2013