| | TITLE | Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture | IMPRINT | D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. | PRICE US | $75.00 CDN $75.00 | ISBN | 9781935202653 TRADE | FORMAT | Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in., 288 pgs, 201 color, 8 b&w. | CATALOG | FALL 2011 p. 176 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 10/31/2011 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| | RELATED MONOGRAPHS Text by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Antonio López García.
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC. Introduction by Aurelio Martínez Estévez, Guillermo Solana. Text by Antonio López, Maria López Moreno, Guillermo Solana, Javier Viar, Paula Luengo.
FUNDACIóN COLECCIóN THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA Text by José M. Faerna.
POLIGRAFA Text by Cheryl Brutvan.
MFA PUBLICATIONS | GIFTS FOR GRADS 2013: 50 Perfect Choices for Recent Graduates!  | |
| | | Antonio López García: Paintings and SculptureText by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Miguel Delibes. The Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor Antonio López García 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. “Reality has a highly resonant physical appearance that twentieth-century man perceives from different angles to those of other ages,” 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 López García's drawings. In this new volume we at last have the definitive monograph on the artist's paintings and sculptures. Carefully overseen by López García in its production, this companion volume includes 200 full-color reproductions.
Antonio López García 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 López Hernández, Amalia Avia and Isabel Quintanilla. López García was the subject of Víctor 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.
Featured image, La cena, (The Dinner), painted by López García between 1971-1980, is reproduced from DAP's Antonio López García: Paintings and Sculpture. | |
|  | free shipping
UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | |
SEARCH ARTBOOK |
| | |  | ANTONIO LóPEZ GARCíA: DRAWINGS
Text by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Antonio López García.
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.
ISBN: 9781935202257 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
Active | In stock
|
|  | ANTONIO LóPEZ
FUNDACIóN COLECCIóN THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
ISBN: 9788415113119 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2011
Active | In stock
|
| |  | ANTONIO LóPEZ
Text by José M. Faerna.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434310551 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 6/1/2008
Active | In stock
|
|  | ANTONIO LóPEZ GARCíA
Text by Cheryl Brutvan.
MFA PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9780878467334 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 5/1/2008
Active | In stock
|
|
|
| |
