ANTONIO LÓPEZ GARCÍA, Tomelloso, Ciudad Real ( Spain). His work is to be found in key museums across the world. In 2008, his international reputation was sealed with a retrospective of his work at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art.
Antonio López stands out for his sensitive depictions of the prosaic and the familiar. The detailed yet wholly harmonious paintings of the Gran Via, Madrid’s “high street” –executed in the 1960s, are some of his most famous works. Much of the high regard for his art is due to his uncompromising and painstaking study of his subjects. He is known for spending years to finish one small canvas. This, together with his brilliant rendering of the subtlety of light, means that López is considered today’s torch bearer in the lineage of Spanish naturalist painters
For his close attention to nature and his accurate painting, López is also very much admired by painters at The Florence Academy of Art. Last year, FAA director Daniel Graves, together with a few FAA fellow painters, met him in Madrid.
...And while he says he is happy to explain it to anybody who is interested, he is so adamant that each artist finds his or her own technique that it is a struggle to get him to go beyond an insistence on the importance of finding your own way, and a condemnation of the academic approach for chaining artistic expression.
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