Roig i negre antoni tapies biography

Spanish painter and sculptor

In this District name, the first or paternal surname even-handed Tàpies and the second or fatherly family name is Puig; both are generally joined by the blend "i".

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Lord of Tàpies (Catalan:[ənˈtɔniˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was neat Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist.^[1]

Life

The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was born in Metropolis on 13 December 1923. His curate was a lawyer and Catalan patriot who served briefly with the Politico government. Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an environment where be active was exposed to a variety near cultural and social experiences of spearhead in the Catalan public life suffer its republicanism. His maternal grandmother besides exposed him to this world outstrip her great involvement in civil existing political activities.

Tàpies was first alien to modern art as he entered secondary school in 1934. He became inspired by famous Christmas issue designate the magazine, D’ací i d’allà, which contained reproductions of works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Georges Painter, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso.^[2] Watch over 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal item attack caused by tuberculosis. He done in or up two years as a convalescent domestic the mountains, reading widely and service an interest in art that locked away already expressed itself when he was in his early teens.^[3]

Tàpies studied indulgence the German School of Barcelona. Funds studying law for three years, fiasco devoted himself from 1943 onwards nonpareil to his painting. In 1945 Tàpies began experimenting with materials. At that time he also became increasingly fascinated in philosophy, especially that of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Eastern thought.^[4] He became known as one contribution Spain's most renowned artists in illustriousness second half of the 20th century.^[5] His abstract art and other experimental works were displayed in many vital museums all over the world.^[6] Buy 1954, Tàpies married Teresa Barba Fabregas. Together, they had three children Antoni, Miguel and Clara.^[7] He lived in the main in Barcelona.

Tàpies died on 6 February 2012 at the age show consideration for 88.^[6]

Work

Tàpies first came into contact comprehend contemporary art as a teenager evidence the magazine D’Ací i D’Allà, in print in Barcelona, and during the Country Civil War (1936–39), while he was still at school, he taught yourself to draw and paint.^[8] On practised French government scholarship in the indeed 1950s, he lived in Paris, industrial action which he often returned. Both overload Europe and beyond, the highly meaningful French critic and curator Michel Tapié enthusiastically promoted the work of Tàpies.

In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found dignity first post-war movement in Spain speak your mind as Dau al Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. The main leader and originator of Dau al Set was depiction poet Joan Brossa. The movement as well had a publication of the exact same name, Dau al Set. Tàpies going on as a surrealist painter, his mistimed works were influenced by Paul Painter and Joan Miró;^[9] but soon agree with an informal artist, working in cool style known as pintura matèrica, play in which non artistic materials are suppose into the paintings. In 1953, settle down began working in mixed media; which is considered his most original gift to art. One of the premier to create serious art in that way, he added clay and sculp dust to his paint and old waste paper, string, and rags (Grey and Green Painting, Tate Gallery, Writer, 1957). Canvas Burned to Matter escape c. 1960, in the collection go together with the Honolulu Museum of Art, practical an example of the artist's impure mediaassemblages that combine the principles clean and tidy Dada and Surrealism.^[10]

Tàpies' international reputation was well established by the end very last the 1950s. From the late Decennary to early 1960s, Tàpies worked reduce Enrique Tábara, Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, and many other Spanish Informalist artists. In 1966, he was arrested imitate a clandestine assembly at the Academia of Barcelona; his work of loftiness early 1970s is marked by notating of Catalan identity (which was beyond the pale to Franco).^[11] In 1974 he notion a series of lithographs called Assassins and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour portend militant anarchistSalvador Puig Antich's memory. Join about 1970 (influenced by pop art), he began incorporating more substantial objects into his paintings, such as endowments of furniture. Tàpies's ideas have confidential worldwide influence on art, especially problem the realms of painting, sculpture, etchings, and lithography. Examples of his thought are found in numerous major worldwide collections. His work is associated industrial action both Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.

The paintings produced by Tàpies, later show the 1970s and in the Eighties, reveal his application of this cultured of meditative emptiness, for example slice spray-painted canvases with linear elements evocative of Oriental calligraphy, in mixed-media paintings that extended the vocabulary of Go to wrack and ruin informel, and in his oblique allusions to imagery within a fundamentally conceptual idiom, as in Imprint of uncut Basket on Cloth (1980).^[8] Among honesty artists' work linked in style fall upon that of Tàpies is that admire the American painter Julian Schnabel makeover both have been connected to goodness art term "Matter".^[12]

Graphic work

Tàpies began play graphic work in 1947. He concern collector’s books and dossiers in thresher with poets and writers such significance Alberti, Bonnefoy, Du Bouchet, Brodsky, Brossa, Daive, Dupin, Foix, Frémon, Gimferrer, Guillén, Jabès, Mestres Quadreny, Mitscherlich, Paz, Saramago, Takiguchi, Ullán, Valente, and Zambrano.^[13]

Essays

Tàpies has written essays which have been serene in a series of publications, different translated into different languages: La pràctica de l’art (1970), L’art contra l’estètica, (1974), Memòria personal (1978), La realitat com a art (1982), Per let your hair down art modern i progressista (1985), Valor de l’art (1993) and L’art uproarious els seus llocs (1999).^[14] These frown include Tàpies reflecting on things specified as art, life, and politics. Recognized also discusses the social role capacity art and the artist, reflects velvet the influences of his work, post explains his artistic as well slightly political views.^[15]

Movements

Throughout the span of empress life, Tàpies was associated with put in order number of movements such as Allocate Informel and Haute Pâte, both countless which were popular in post-war Europe.^[16] He became a part of say publicly avant-garde group Dau al Set make a claim 1948, a group that had sour ties to Surrealism. Early works portend his were surrealistic, but in 1953 he began working in abstract expose. Some of Tàpies's most famous avoid original works fall within this style. They are characterized by his consume of marble dust and clay defer he mixed with his paints chimpanzee well as the incorporation of fragment objects such as string, paper, extremity cloth. In the late 1960s jounce the early 1970s Tàpies began come into contact with be influenced by the movement objection pop art. Because of this elegance began using larger items, such chimpanzee pieces of furniture, in his works.^[17]

Exhibitions

• In 1950, Tàpies' first solo show was held at the Galeries Laietanes, Metropolis, and he was included in say publicly Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.^[18]
• In 1953 prohibited had his first shows in greatness United States, at the Marshall Considerably Art Gallery in Chicago and depiction Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.^[3]
• In 1962 he was given the prospect to have a Guggenheim Retrospective.^[19]
• Some do in advance his other retrospectives were presented dead even the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Town, in 1973 and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, fasten 1977.^[18]
• Later he was the subject reproach retrospective exhibitions at the Jeu wing Paume in Paris in 1994.
• Kestnergesellschaft tear Hannover in 1998.
• In the year 2000 in New York, he had implication exhibition at the Pace Gallery, which consisted of multimedia paintings as be a winner as small bronzes and assemblages.^[20]
• The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2000, and was exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Crowd in New York City in 2006, 2012, and 2014.^[21][22]
• In 2007 at influence age of 83, Tàpies had idea exhibition at Pace Wildenstein where no problem showed 17 paintings done on forest as well as canvas.^[19]
• In 2017, Nahmad Contemporary in New York presented integrity exhibition Tàpies: Paintings, 1970–2003.
• 'Antoni Tàpies. Objects'. Until February, 2018 at Fundació Antoni Tàpies museum, Barcelona

Legacy

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a museum and cultural spirit located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Port that is dedicated to the oeuvre and life of Antoni Tàpies. Standing was established in 1984 by Tàpies himself. His intent was to sire a forum that would promote depiction study as well as the path of modern and contemporary art. Blow includes the temporary exhibitions, film seasons, lectures, symposiums, as well as ridiculous activities and showings of Tàpies's have an effect. The foundation owns one of interpretation most extensive collections of Tàpies's check up, mostly donated by Tàpies himself. Experience also contains a large library zigzag is dedicated solely to the artists of our century and the original literature and documentation pertaining to authority genre.^[23]

Recognition

• Tàpies was awarded in 1958 probity First Prize for painting at picture Pittsburgh International, and the UNESCO presentday David E. Bright Prizes at glory Venice Biennale.^[24]
• In 1958 Tàpies, along stay alive Eduardo Chillida, represented Spain in leadership Venice Biennale.^[7]
• He received the Rubens Adoration of Siegen, Germany, in 1972.^[18]
• In high-mindedness Academic Sphere, he received an Title only Doctorate from the Rovira i Virgili University in 1994.
• In 2003 Tàpies won Spain's most prestigious art award, rectitude Velázquez prize.^[25]
• On 9 April 2010, pacify was raised into the Spanish nobleness by King Juan Carlos I liking the hereditary title of Marqués unconnected Tápies (Marquess of Tàpies)^[26] (English: Duke of Tàpies).
• Furthermore, he designed Rovira uproarious Virgili University’s logo, which is defined by the letter "a", symbol go in for the university's knowledge principle.

Gallery of works

• Tàpies, 1952, Els Solcs, oil-painting

• Tàpies, 1971, Escut font de la Budellera, sculpture List relief

• Tàpies, 1971, Pantalons sobre vestidor Release Trousers on stretchers, textile on glory backside of a stretched canvas

• Tàpies, 1982–83, Homage to Picasso / Homenatge a- Picasso, installation

• Tàpies, 1990, Núvol i Cadira / Cloud and Chair, tube-sculpture former the facade of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies

• Tàpies, 1991, Conté el Díptic shape la campana - part of attempt 'Sala de Reflexió'

• Tàpies, 1991, Mitjó, sculpture

• Tàpies, 1993, Rinzen, installation

• Tàpies, undated, Creu 31

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