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The Painter and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 1985, Antonio López García, Badajoz was now convinced that "the teaching of the Fine Arts is in a time of deep crisis" because, he explained, until recently the painting was abstract or figurative, but now there are new ways of telling stories.

López García So said during his lecture today at the Faculty of Business, University of Extremadura (UEX) to inaugurate the fourth edition of the International Summer School of UEX, attended by various authorities as the rector, Ginés Salido, or the Vice Chancellor for Cultural Action, Bernardo Santana.

According to the painter, the art does not occur as with science, we know what to convey and how to transmit, but in the case of Fine Arts there are many really interesting and important ways " and in this sense does not have the temperament confessed enough to defend the work done "because I think I can be wrong you might be like anyone else."

So the Prince of Asturias Prize said it is very difficult to start teaching at a college of Fine Arts today because every student will seek to engage in other gear type, and in that sense is made "that serves to make many a young naked when he wants to engage in other types of art." THE DOUBT AS SOLUTION

In this situation, the speaker suggested as a possible solution to use the doubt. " should not strive to be right but that is doubtful with you, younger, and see where all this leads us " said Antonio Lopez, who added that the question is necessary in today's society where the pillars that had supported the certainties we have sunk, and therefore the only thing left is the good faith, "he said.

Antonio López García was very pleased that this year for the first time UEX has organized a "course on fine arts: painting and drawing, to be held from 21 to 25 July at the Monastery of Yuste and taught him himself, "and there I have much more to say because I have been working half-century," said the painter, who recalled the five years between 1964 and 1969, where he taught at the Royal Academy of San Fernando. About the art

Extremadura, Lopez Garcia stated that in his opinion, the best painter who has had the region has been Zurbarán, and after he Eugenio Hermoso, which was a student when was about to retire, and he remembered as "a man of great finesse, very good faith and candor impressive, and so he was sometimes wrong in his later years," he said. A MEDIOCRE ART

The painter said that art needs to live, "because good art comes from the noble human being", but regretted that in recent times art is contaminated by a part of society, "which pollutes the political, the religious and the artist ", and in that sense said that this morning visited the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Badajoz," and I've seen pictures very poor, because mediocrity has always existed, and so does he said, when go to the Prado Museum, "and I always virtually visiting Velázquez, ie you end up making it very selective ."

About their current jobs, Antonio Lopez said it is working on a painting he has commissioned the Royal Family and that is portraying real life-size standing all members of the royal family and other hand, it is painting a landscape of Madrid.

Antonio López García was born in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, in 1936, and formed artistically with his uncle, a painter, Antonio López Torres. In his work has been influential Salvador Dalí, who took a taste for reality and the dominance of the drawing on the painting. The protagonists of his paintings are the objects and events of everyday life.

The painter Antonio López García says that the teaching of the Fine Arts is in crisis. IRIN

World University - News - 19/06/2003