Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture

Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture

The Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor Antonio LÃ³pez GarcÃa is so widely celebrated for the staggering exactitude of his painterly realism that it's sometimes easy to neglect the magical, delicate atmospheres he conjures through his technical abilities. His paintings of what in anyone else's hands would seem the blandest subject matter imaginable--a blank wall, a coat hook, a kitchen sink, the interior of a refrigerator--teem with an infused, loving scrutiny that betrays the months and years of labor the artist devotes to each work. â€œReality has a highly resonant physical appearance that twentieth-century man perceives from different angles to those of other ages,â€ he once told an interviewer. Likewise, his portrait sculptures attain an almost terrifying verisimilitude, the eyes appearing ever on the verge of flickering into life and returning the viewer's gaze. In 2010, D.A.P. published the definitive monograph on LÃ³pez GarcÃa's drawings. In this new volume we at last have the definitive monograph on the artist's paintings and sculptures. Carefully overseen by LÃ³pez GarcÃa in its production, this companion volume includes 200 full-color reproductions.
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 Erice's 1992 film El Sol del Membrillo (The Quince Tree of the Sun), which closely chronicles the artist's attempts to paint a quince tree.
Country USA
Brand D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Manufacturer D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781935202653

Country	USA
Brand	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Manufacturer	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-10-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781935202653

Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture

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