Within ten easels, canvases twenty, half a watermelon, two onions, some peppers ... What you need for a still life.
Outside, facing the sea, half a dozen painters who on Monday challenged the intermittent rain.
In the middle, coming and going from the classroom to the stables of the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander to the beach, the teacher: Antonio López.
The painter ran a painting workshop at the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP). 'I try to convey that you have to paint things as they feel' said.
'I came not to teach or learn, but to give my advice to artists who may need advice from someone older, and spend some time with colleagues younger than me ' , said Lopez told reporters at the press conference held outdoors.
stated that this meeting with 15 young artists is a great satisfaction to him, 'Here sack the pleasure of seeing how it feels and how it evolves to start painting. I recognize my many years in the struggle that involves the search for an identity painting. "
Although he said there is also bitterness in education: 'You suffer to see that sometimes you can not help more, one can give advice but can not do much . "
Participants in the workshop are mostly art students, but there are a high school teacher and a professional painter.
'We have nothing in common, if any devotion to the work of Antonio ", said Alvaro Díaz-Palacios, 20 years old and a sophomore of Fine Arts.
Students say that in his criticism, Lee is more concerned with extolling the positives that the negatives of his pictures.
I have been asked to ask and, above all, talk about painting, between them and him. In this week painted a picture, two or three, giving time.
López participants chose between all the requests received and of all styles: 'In all the elect saw something, there is always an individual way of seeing things and that must be respected, not looked at me like that, but when I say something. There are one or two very good, some not so ' .
He added: 'Most do not have a personality, a definite style, so it is important to learn the technique. There is still no commitment in the form of painting ' .
The painter says that while not clear how it is taught, they know who their teachers, from the sculptor Julio Lopez friend of Antonio and these days runs a sculpture workshop in the classroom next to that of Antonio, Velázquez, the Greek painters Antonio López and his uncle, a painter of landscapes Mancha who began painting.
Lopez explained that currently makes a landscape of Madrid. "It's a view from a fire tower in Vallecas. Everything looks Madrid, from the Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid recognizable buildings, Vallecas, pollution. "
He concluded: 'It's a good document. " Expected to be completed before year end, like the portrait done for 7 years of the royal family.
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he explained that he inadvertently paints: "Although it will always be my vision and not someone else, in a portrait it is important that people look like ' .
The Country Festival - 24/07/2002
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