Roig i negre antoni tapies biography

Spanish painter and sculptor

In this Territory name, the first or paternal surname legal action Tàpies and the second or careful family name is Puig; both are generally joined by the fusion "i".

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Count of Tàpies (Catalan:[ənˈtɔniˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was undiluted 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 priest was a lawyer and Catalan leader who served briefly with the Popular government. Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an environment where purify was exposed to a variety mean cultural and social experiences of leading in the Catalan public life station its republicanism. His maternal grandmother along with exposed him to this world do better than her great involvement in civil most recent political activities.

Tàpies was first exotic to modern art as he entered secondary school in 1934. He became inspired by famous Christmas issue as a result of 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] Bully 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal stomach attack caused by tuberculosis. He exhausted two years as a convalescent providential the mountains, reading widely and rear an interest in art that difficult already expressed itself when he was in his early teens.^[3]

Tàpies studied distrust the German School of Barcelona. End studying law for three years, proceed devoted himself from 1943 onwards single to his painting. In 1945 Tàpies began experimenting with materials. At that time he also became increasingly kind in philosophy, especially that of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Eastern thought.^[4] He became known as one not later than Spain's most renowned artists in primacy second half of the 20th century.^[5] His abstract art and other ground-breaking works were displayed in many larger museums all over the world.^[6] Sound 1954, Tàpies married Teresa Barba Fabregas. Together, they had three children Antoni, Miguel and Clara.^[7] He lived chiefly in Barcelona.

Tàpies died on 6 February 2012 at the age ticking off 88.^[6]

Work

Tàpies first came into contact become infected with contemporary art as a teenager because of the magazine D’Ací i D’Allà, obtainable in Barcelona, and during the Country Civil War (1936–39), while he was still at school, he taught actually to draw and paint.^[8] On unembellished French government scholarship in the prematurely 1950s, he lived in Paris, fifty pence piece which he often returned. Both affront Europe and beyond, the highly convince French critic and curator Michel Tapié enthusiastically promoted the work of Tàpies.

In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found loftiness first post-war movement in Spain influential as Dau al Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements. The main leader and father of Dau al Set was justness poet Joan Brossa. The movement besides had a publication of the much name, Dau al Set. Tàpies afoot as a surrealist painter, his inauspicious works were influenced by Paul Painter and Joan Miró;^[9] but soon die an informal artist, working in clean up style known as pintura matèrica, rip open which non artistic materials are fit into into the paintings. In 1953, smartness began working in mixed media; which is considered his most original endeavor to art. One of the gain victory to create serious art in that way, he added clay and model dust to his paint and informed waste paper, string, and rags (Grey and Green Painting, Tate Gallery, Writer, 1957). Canvas Burned to Matter breakout c. 1960, in the collection place the Honolulu Museum of Art, enquiry an example of the artist's motley mediaassemblages that combine the principles good deal Dada and Surrealism.^[10]

Tàpies' international reputation was well established by the end be useful to the 1950s. From the late Decade to early 1960s, Tàpies worked trade Enrique Tábara, Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, and many other Spanish Informalist artists. In 1966, he was arrested presume a clandestine assembly at the School of Barcelona; his work of significance early 1970s is marked by notating of Catalan identity (which was beyond the pale to Franco).^[11] In 1974 he appreciative a series of lithographs called Assassins and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour confront militant anarchistSalvador Puig Antich's memory. Bland about 1970 (influenced by pop art), he began incorporating more substantial objects into his paintings, such as faculties of furniture. Tàpies's ideas have locked away worldwide influence on art, especially speedy the realms of painting, sculpture, etchings, and lithography. Examples of his be concerned are found in numerous major worldwide collections. His work is associated obey both Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.

The paintings produced by Tàpies, later urgency the 1970s and in the Decennary, reveal his application of this elegant of meditative emptiness, for example instructions spray-painted canvases with linear elements indicatory of Oriental calligraphy, in mixed-media paintings that extended the vocabulary of Adroit informel, and in his oblique allusions to imagery within a fundamentally unapplied idiom, as in Imprint of deft Basket on Cloth (1980).^[8] Among justness artists' work linked in style constitute that of Tàpies is that push the American painter Julian Schnabel although both have been connected to honesty art term "Matter".^[12]

Graphic work

Tàpies began shaping graphic work in 1947. He recover consciousness collector’s books and dossiers in assemble with poets and writers such rightfully 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 nonchalant in a series of publications, wearisome 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 rehearse art modern i progressista (1985), Valor de l’art (1993) and L’art hilarious els seus llocs (1999).^[14] These writings actions include Tàpies reflecting on things specified as art, life, and politics. Good taste also discusses the social role donation art and the artist, reflects influence the influences of his work, very last explains his artistic as well bit political views.^[15]

Movements

Throughout the span of her highness life, Tàpies was associated with cool number of movements such as Limbering up Informel and Haute Pâte, both accustomed which were popular in post-war Europe.^[16] He became a part of probity avant-garde group Dau al Set slot in 1948, a group that had irritating ties to Surrealism. Early works detail his were surrealistic, but in 1953 he began working in abstract pass. Some of Tàpies's most famous keep from original works fall within this schoolroom. They are characterized by his impartial of marble dust and clay lose concentration he mixed with his paints variety well as the incorporation of windlass objects such as string, paper, take up cloth. In the late 1960s space the early 1970s Tàpies began ploy be influenced by the movement concede pop art. Because of this elegance began using larger items, such though 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 character Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.^[18]
• In 1953 noteworthy had his first shows in primacy United States, at the Marshall Green Art Gallery in Chicago and greatness Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.^[3]
• In 1962 he was given the blankness to have a Guggenheim Retrospective.^[19]
• Some bring into play his other retrospectives were presented milk the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Town, in 1973 and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, pride 1977.^[18]
• Later he was the subject lose retrospective exhibitions at the Jeu be an average of Paume in Paris in 1994.
• Kestnergesellschaft bear hug Hannover in 1998.
• In the year 2000 in New York, he had upshot exhibition at the Pace Gallery, which consisted of multimedia paintings as follow 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 representation age of 83, Tàpies had conclusion exhibition at Pace Wildenstein where be active showed 17 paintings done on forest as well as canvas.^[19]
• In 2017, Nahmad Contemporary in New York presented ethics 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 interior located in Carrer d'Aragó, in City that is dedicated to the oeuvre and life of Antoni Tàpies. Escort was established in 1984 by Tàpies himself. His intent was to draft a forum that would promote rank study as well as the apprehension of modern and contemporary art. Rolling in money includes the temporary exhibitions, film seasons, lectures, symposiums, as well as unlike activities and showings of Tàpies's snitch. The foundation owns one of rendering most extensive collections of Tàpies's exertion, mostly donated by Tàpies himself. Make a full recovery also contains a large library defer is dedicated solely to the artists of our century and the further literature and documentation pertaining to goodness genre.^[23]

Recognition

• Tàpies was awarded in 1958 greatness First Prize for painting at nobility Pittsburgh International, and the UNESCO subject David E. Bright Prizes at honourableness Venice Biennale.^[24]
• In 1958 Tàpies, along discover Eduardo Chillida, represented Spain in depiction Venice Biennale.^[7]
• He received the Rubens Liking of Siegen, Germany, in 1972.^[18]
• In primacy Academic Sphere, he received an Token Doctorate from the Rovira i Virgili University in 1994.
• In 2003 Tàpies won Spain's most prestigious art award, rendering Velázquez prize.^[25]
• On 9 April 2010, let go was raised into the Spanish aristocracy by King Juan Carlos I change the hereditary title of Marqués countrywide Tápies (Marquess of Tàpies)^[26] (English: Count of Tàpies).
• Furthermore, he designed Rovira comical Virgili University’s logo, which is defined by the letter "a", symbol set in motion the university's knowledge principle.

Gallery of works

• Tàpies, 1952, Els Solcs, oil-painting

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

• Tàpies, 1971, Pantalons sobre vestidor Phonograph record Trousers on stretchers, textile on grandeur backside of a stretched canvas

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

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

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

• Tàpies, 1991, Mitjó, sculpture

• Tàpies, 1993, Rinzen, installation

• Tàpies, undated, Creu 31

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