Antonio López

Antonio López - Rose and quince

Technique: Lithography

Artist Biography: Born in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, on January 6, 1936. He was initiated in painting by his uncle Antonio López Torres. He moves to Madrid in 1949, and prepares his entrance to the School of Fine Arts by attending the Museum of Artistic Reproductions and the School of Arts and Crafts. He studied painting at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid between 1950 and 1955. After finishing his studies, he worked between Tomelloso and Madrid until 1960. In 1961 he marries María Moreno, also a painter, and between 1962 and 1964 his two daughters, María and Carmen respectively, are born. In the second decade of the sixties, he is professor in charge of the Preparatory Chair of Coloring at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. His first individual exhibition is in charge of EUROPALIA'85, where Chillida and Tàpies also had individual exhibitions. He has had numerous exhibitions in the most important museums and art centers of the Spanish state, among them: ''Antonio López'', at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum (2011), and ''Antonio López. Man and Woman'' at the MNCARS (2001). Abroad, it is worth mentioning ''Antonio López García'' at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2008). Between 1991 and 2001, he portrayed Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain. In 2008, he placed his well-known public monument ''El día y la noche'' at the Atocha Station in Madrid. Among his numerous awards, the following stand out: Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Murcia and Honorary Member of the University Cloister of Arts of the University of Alcalá, Madrid, in 2013; Prince of Viana Award for Culture in 2012 and the ABC Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 1985.