Antonio López

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Antonio López

Antonio LÃ³pez--also known as Antonio LÃ³pez GarcÃa--is hyper-realismâ€™s greatest living exponent, and one of the finest painters of the past hundred years. Published on the occasion of the artistâ€™s landmark exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, this generous overview constitutes a self-portrait of a genuine icon of contemporary painting. It spans the years from 1953 to the present, placing an emphasis on works made after 1993 (the year of the artistâ€™s last retrospective exhibition in Spain, at the Reina Sofia Museum). These more recent pieces include masterworks such as â€œView of Madrid from the Vallecas Fire Towerâ€ (1990â€“2006) and the monumental heads â€œDay,â€ â€œNightâ€ and â€œWoman, Cosladaâ€ (2010). The artist himself has selected the works and structured their presentation here into eight thematic groupings: â€œMemory,â€ â€œSurroundings,â€ â€œMadrid,â€ â€œGran VÃa,â€ â€œTree,â€ â€œNude,â€ â€œCharactersâ€ and â€œInteriors.â€ Full-color reproductions are complemented by a wealth of archival documentary photographs of the artist at work.
Antonio LÃ³pez GarcÃa was born in Tomelloso, in the heart of Spain, a few months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He studied at the School of Art in Madrid in the early 1950s, where he soon proved himself a brilliant student, and quickly became part of a nucleus of realist painters, such as Francisco LÃ³pez HernÃ¡ndez, Amalia Avia and Isabel Quintanilla. LÃ³pez GarcÃa was the subject of VÃctor Ericeâ€™s 1992 film El Sol del Membrillo (The Quince Tree of the Sun), which closely chronicles the artistâ€™s attempts to paint a quince tree.

Country	USA
Artist	Antonio López García
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9788415113119
Feature	```````
ISBN	8415113110
Label	Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
Manufacturer	Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	264
PublicationDate	2011-10-31
Publisher	Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
Studio	Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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