Antonio Lopez
Antonio Lopez Garcia, born in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, Spain on the 6 January 1936.
A hyperrealist with a heart and a killer technique. He works on the spot not from photos. There is an amazing film about him by Victor Erice: "The Quince's Sun". It 's available on video in Britain and is not to be missed.
posted by Oscar Grillo at 14.5.06
9 Comments:
Wow!
I saw the Quince Tree film last year, but hadn't seen his paintings until now; extremely impressive!--they must have taken many many years of very intense concentration.
You have incredibly good taste!
Amazing!I love it !:O)
Jesus fucking christ!
What have poor old J.C. done to you?
Very impressive and most intriguing. I've never seen this man's work before.
The shot of himself in the middle of the street beggars belief. I can barely imagine the guts and determination it takes to set to work in such an inhospitable, frustrating and awkward place.
And such a painting...!
do you find important telling that he doesn´t work from photos? Isn't the final image the most important, and the journey of seing the image, rather than the journey of making it?
Anonymous. There is a realism of the "eye" and there is a realism of the "vision",...Richard Estes, for example, photographs a street scene, projects it on a canvass and applies paint on the projected spaces. Lopez looks at an image in front of him and translates it to the canvass capturing an emotional instant. Estes is a "Photo realist", Lopez is a "Realist"...."The Quince's Sun" IS ABOUT IT!!!...See it.
The 3rd image from the top clearly shows distortion typical of an image seen through a lens. Did he look at the scene through a lens? thereby inducing a 'photographic' effect.
The top picture is truly uncanny.
I saw the original painting. It looked to me a deliberate effect to dynamize the composition......
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