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Velázquez Prize 2006 Fine Arts

from the Prince of Asturias, the painter Antonio Lopez Garcia (Tomelloso, 1936) received yesterday the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2006, with "Las Meninas." Don Felipe recalled the admiration of the entire royal family of the painter. The artist dedicated the speech to his uncle Antonio López Torres, who encouraged his dedication to painting. The

Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2006, awarded by the Ministry of Culture to the painter and sculptor Antonio Lopez on 24 May, highlights the work of an artist who "has its roots in the purest English realist tradition." The prize is worth 90,000 euros as Cervantes de las Letras, an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, and a scholarship of 30,000 euros for an artist under 35 years.

Don Felipe recalled the admiration and appreciation to all the Royal Family has for her work and herself, explaining that "our admiration extends both to their splendid creations first, full of poetic meaning, depth and connotations dream as to all his great later work. "

The Prince of Asturias during the ceremony recalled that the only secrets of which he described as "teacher" is the technical and hours, "the many hours of patient work involved contemplation, used to capture, analyze and to look at. "He also referred to" prodigious exercise in integration of the arts "and their mark on the aesthetics of recent English cinema.

In his speech, López García, evoked the figure of his uncle Antonio López Torres, the artist, single, small, nervous, sensitive, apprehensive, sometimes with a great sense of humor. He recalled the simple still lifes, very Mancha and concentration with which he works his uncle, while he, the nephew of older age twelve began drawing reproductions of nineteenth-century paintings of a magazine. "My uncle saw me drawing. I was hoping to comment on something, but did not say anything, I think I let him do, he hoped. "

An award and the insistence of his uncle convinced his father to study in Madrid. "Now I wonder the safety of my uncle in my ability to paint, his will to be a painter, and moved me was how despite their difficulties so that the painting was a good job to dedicate his life to '.

In Madrid, at thirteen, he visited with his parents and his uncle, the Prado Museum where we finally saw the works of the greatest painters, especially Velázquez. "Used to the paint so light of my uncle, seemed dark, they were too big for my little knowledge. Upon leaving I confessed that I liked his painting, and I still remember the look on his face to hear. Actually it took me a long time go by understanding the language, the enigma of the painting. I'm still learning it. "

The artist is currently on a portrait of the royal family on behalf of National Heritage and the June 1st Assembly gave Madrid a huge panorama of Madrid, made from the firehouse Vallecas.
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Francisco Navarro. Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 11:42