Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture

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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
Artist	Antonio López García
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Lopez-Garcia, Antonio (ART)/ Serraller, Francisco Calvo/ Delibes, Miguel
EAN	9781935202653
Edition	y First edition
ISBN	1935202650
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Manufacturer	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2011-10-31
Publisher	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Studio	D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture

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