Between 1950 and 1955 carried out studies of Fine Arts brilliantly, grabbing a good number of awards. From School friends come into the world of the arts, there would agree with Mary Moreno, also a painter, with whom he will marry in 1961 - Lucio Muñoz and Enrique Gran, whose career has run later linked to the abstraction, and the sculptors Julio and Francisco López Hernández.
latter two, along with Amalia Avia, Isabel Quintanilla and Antonio Lopez himself, make up a realistic group based in Madrid that is beginning to be recognized as such from the sixties, even though they always insist their relationship is friendly rather than programmatic. Madrid of the war was very isolated in the international arena of arts and culture, and all information to which access Antonio López at the time about modern art, and much of the old-is reduced to low illustrated books from the school library or from Argentina that the restless youth passed from hand to hand, and due to meet for the first time the work of Picasso and other great historical avant-garde artists.
In 1955, a grant allowed to travel to Italy with Francisco López and there comes a certain disappointment with the Italian Renaissance painting, for which so far was great interest, "English Painting revaluing had been seen at home in the Museo del Prado, especially Velázquez, a constant reference, along with Vermeer, his artistic conception. 
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