Antonio Lopez Garcia
Antonio Lopez Garcia was born in 1936 in
Tomelloso Spain, and displayed artistic talent from a very young age. He was very
self motivated to absorb and learn from Spanish painters of the past and had a
particular affinity for the work of Velazquez. His early work has a surreal
quality about it with objects or slightly distorted figures floating in
interior and exterior spaces, but what carries through to his mature realist period
is his ability to describe space, atmosphere and texture all in lovingly
crafted detail. Whether painting a grouping of flowers, a nondescript interior,
portrait or cityscape, Garcia has the ability to render more than exacting
detail, but an appreciation for both the craft of painting and the
representation of beauty in the ordinary. In his painting Skinned Rabbit from 1972 Garcia has carefully rendered a rabbit
curled up in a fetal position on a glass dish. The dish rests on a white table
that is scarred and marked with distress, peeling paint, gouges and perhaps
dried blood give contrast to the quiet image of the rabbit. Garcia strikes a
contemplative mood with the point of view looking down on the image, almost in
reverence for the dead animal and a mostly pastel range of color and carefully
executed brushwork.
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