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Antonio López (Biography)

Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style.

López García was born into a family of farmers on January 6, 1936 in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, in a turbulent Spain, months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

As a child, he received his first lessons from his uncle Antonio Lopez Torres, a local painter of landscapes. In 1949 he moved to Madrid to study at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he won several prizes. At school he befriended the painter María Moreno, who later became his wife and with whom he had two daughters.

In 1955 he traveled with on (I would use "on" but I don't think "with" is wrong) a scholarship to Italy in order to study Italian painting from the Renaissance. Later, in 1960, its his panoramic views of Madrid began to become known and his work received a significant international recognition. He had taking his first solo exhibition in Madrid in 1961. and already  In 1965 and 1968, he exhibited work in the Staempfli Gallery in of New York.

He was influenced by the work of Salvador Dalí. Criticized by some but praised by others, his reputation continued to grow silently between 1960 and 1970.

Antonio López has been awarded numerous times  won numerous awards. In 1985 he was awarded the Prize Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes, in 1986 and 1990 respectively, he received the Gold Medal of Castilla-La Mancha and the Comunidad de Madrid. In 2004, Antonio López was inducted as an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. In 2008 he received the Velázquez Prize for Fine Arts and this year the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston dedicated him a monographic exhibition. More recently, in 2001, he has awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra, and in 2012 he has awarded the International Arts Medal.

His work is nowadays in several major collections of U.S. museums and, until September 2012, the Thyssen Museum in Madrid has had sheltered a temporary exhibition with works of all his stages, but mainly from the last few years.

Some of his works are: Calle de Santa Rita (1961), Atocha (1964), Gran Vía (1974-1981) and Madrid visto desde Torres Blancas (1976-1982). This latter, an impressive urban sight of the Spanish capital, was auctioned at Christie's, London, in 2008 for 1.38 million pounds (1.74 million euros), making its author the Spanish painter alive most valued.