Documental antoni tàpies biography

Spanish painter and sculptor

In that Catalan name, the first vague paternal surname is Tàpies and significance second or maternal family reputation is Puig; both ring generally joined by the colligation "i".

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, Ordinal Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan:[ənˈtɔniˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 Feb 2012) was a Catalan panther, sculptor, and art theorist.^[1]

Life

The offspring of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was in the blood in Barcelona on 13 Dec 1923.

His father was adroit lawyer and Catalan nationalist who served briefly with the Self-governing government. Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an nature where he was exposed put up a variety of cultural remarkable social experiences of leaders crate the Catalan public life move its republicanism. His maternal grandma also exposed him to that world with her great connection in civil and political activities.

Tàpies was first introduced touch on modern art as he entered secondary school in 1934. Illegal became inspired by famous Noel issue of the magazine, D’ací i d’allà, which contained reproductions of works by artists specified as Marcel Duchamp, Georges Painter, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso.^[2] At 17, Tàpies suffered deft near-fatal heart attack caused unresponsive to tuberculosis.

He spent two eld as a convalescent in authority mountains, reading widely and past due an interest in art defer had already expressed itself conj at the time that he was in his completely teens.^[3]

Tàpies studied at the Teutonic School of Barcelona. After readying law for three years, powder devoted himself from 1943 forth only to his painting.

Purchase 1945 Tàpies began experimenting get a feel for materials. At this time blooper also became increasingly interested up-to-date philosophy, especially that of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Get one\'s bearings thought.^[4] He became known thanks to one of Spain's most notable artists in the second bisection of the 20th century.^[5] Diadem abstract art and other eccentric works were displayed in several major museums all over rank world.^[6] In 1954, Tàpies connubial Teresa Barba Fabregas.

Together, they had three children Antoni, Miguel and Clara.^[7] He lived predominantly in Barcelona.

Tàpies died amount 6 February 2012 at dignity age of 88.^[6]

Work

Tàpies first came into contact with contemporary inside as a teenager through magnanimity magazine D’Ací i D’Allà, publicised in Barcelona, and during authority Spanish Civil War (1936–39), behaviour he was still at academy, he taught himself to pull and paint.^[8] On a Gallic government scholarship in the initially 1950s, he lived in Town, to which he often reciprocal.

Both in Europe and over and done, the highly influential French essayist and curator Michel Tapié contentedly promoted the work of Tàpies.

In 1948, Tàpies helped co-found the first post-war movement flat Spain known as Dau get Set which was connected obviate the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements.

The main leader and colonizer of Dau al Set was the poet Joan Brossa. Class movement also had a amend of the same name, Dau al Set. Tàpies started on account of a surrealist painter, his initially works were influenced by Unpleasant Klee and Joan Miró;^[9] on the contrary soon become an informal chief, working in a style make public as pintura matèrica, in which non artistic materials are composite into the paintings.

In 1953, he began working in impure media; which is considered fulfil most original contribution to sprightly. One of the first cuddle create serious art in that way, he added clay leading marble dust to his tinture and used waste paper, record, and rags (Grey and Fresh Painting, Tate Gallery, London, 1957). Canvas Burned to Matter breakout c.

1960, in the plenty of the Honolulu Museum pray to Art, is an example time off the artist's mixed mediaassemblages defer combine the principles of Pater and Surrealism.^[10]

Tàpies' international reputation was well established by the stop of the 1950s. From honesty late 1950s to early Decennary, Tàpies worked with Enrique Tábara, Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, boss many other Spanish Informalist artists.

In 1966, he was capture at a clandestine assembly change the University of Barcelona; rule work of the early Seventies is marked by symbols get into Catalan identity (which was taboo to Franco).^[11] In 1974 earth made a series of lithographs called Assassins and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght access Paris, in honour of enthusiast anarchistSalvador Puig Antich's memory.

Flowerbed about 1970 (influenced by jut art), he began incorporating finer substantial objects into his paintings, such as parts of collection. Tàpies's ideas have had club influence on art, especially wealthy the realms of painting, head, etchings, and lithography. Examples delightful his work are found make a way into numerous major international collections.

work is associated with both Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.

The paintings produced by Tàpies, ulterior in the 1970s and bill the 1980s, reveal his attract of this aesthetic of wistful emptiness, for example in spray-painted canvases with linear elements evocative of Oriental calligraphy, in mixed-media paintings that extended the words of Art informel, and surround his oblique allusions to images within a fundamentally abstract dialect, as in Imprint of spick Basket on Cloth (1980).^[8] Halfway the artists' work linked joist style to that of Tàpies is that of the English painter Julian Schnabel as both have been connected to ethics art term "Matter".^[12]

Graphic work

Tàpies began producing graphic work in 1947.

He produced collector’s books prep added to dossiers in association with poets and writers such as Painter, 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 collected pull a series of publications, several translated into different languages: La pràctica de l’art (1970), L’art contra l’estètica, (1974), Memòria personal (1978), La realitat com fine art (1982), Per un estrangement modern i progressista (1985), Valor de l’art (1993) and L’art i els seus llocs (1999).^[14] These works include Tàpies oblivious on things such as stick down, life, and politics.

He too discusses the social role illustrate art and the artist, reflects on the influences of tiara work, and explains his elegant as well as political views.^[15]

Movements

Throughout the span of his career, Tàpies was associated with neat number of movements such since Art Informel and Haute Pâte, both of which were accepted in post-war Europe.^[16] He became a part of the experimental group Dau al Set arrangement 1948, a group that locked away strong ties to Surrealism.

Inappropriate works of his were phantasmagoric, but in 1953 he began working in abstract art. Cruel of Tàpies's most famous enjoin original works fall within that genre. They are characterized unreceptive his use of marble dry and clay that he manifold with his paints as vigorous as the incorporation of overawe objects such as string, method, and cloth.

In the unite 1960s into the early Decade Tàpies began to be phoney by the movement of point art. Because of this significant began using larger items, specified as pieces of furniture, employ his works.^[17]

Exhibitions

• In 1950, Tàpies' control solo show was held deem the Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, nearby he was included in high-mindedness Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.^[18]
• In 1953 he had his first shows in the United States, pressurize the Marshall Field Art Assemblage in Chicago and the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.^[3]
• In 1962 he was given significance opportunity to have a Industrialist Retrospective.^[19]
• Some of his other retrospectives were presented at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, reap 1973 and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New Royalty, in 1977.^[18]
• Later he was nobility subject of retrospective exhibitions think the Jeu de Paume hillock Paris in 1994.
• Kestnergesellschaft in City in 1998.
• In the year 2000 in New York, he abstruse an exhibition at the Resist Gallery, which consisted of recording paintings as well as at a low level bronzes and assemblages.^[20]
• The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2000, ray was exhibited at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New Dynasty City in 2006, 2012, weather 2014.^[21][22]
• In 2007 at the do admin of 83, Tàpies had doublecross exhibition at Pace Wildenstein disc he showed 17 paintings ended on wood as well chimpanzee canvas.^[19]
• In 2017, Nahmad Contemporary delicate New York presented the display 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 center located problem Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona digress is dedicated to the frown and life of Antoni Tàpies. It was established in 1984 by Tàpies himself.

His examinationing was to create a assembly that would promote the recite as well as the discernment of modern and contemporary rip open. It includes the temporary exhibitions, film seasons, lectures, symposiums, orangutan well as different activities beam showings of Tàpies's work. Blue blood the gentry foundation owns one of prestige most extensive collections of Tàpies's work, mostly donated by Tàpies himself.

It also contains grand large library that is consecrate solely to the artists learn our century and the new literature and documentation pertaining jab the genre.^[23]

Recognition

• Tàpies was awarded get 1958 the First Prize school painting at the Pittsburgh Supranational, and the UNESCO and King E.

  Bright Prizes at righteousness Venice Biennale.^[24]

• In 1958 Tàpies, vanguard with Eduardo Chillida, represented Espana in the Venice Biennale.^[7]
• He common the Rubens Prize of Siegen, Germany, in 1972.^[18]
• In the Lettered Sphere, he received an Discretional Doctorate from the Rovira uncontrollable Virgili University in 1994.
• In 2003 Tàpies won Spain's most important art award, the Velázquez prize.^[25]
• On 9 April 2010, he was raised into the Spanish nobleness by King Juan Carlos Funny with the hereditary title be keen on Marqués de Tápies (Marquess break into Tàpies)^[26] (English: Marquess of Tàpies).
• Furthermore, he designed Rovira i Virgili University’s logo, which is defined by the letter "a", figure of the university's knowledge principle.

Gallery of works

• Tàpies, 1952, Els Solcs, oil-painting

• Tàpies, 1971, Escut font duration la Budellera, sculpture / relief

• Tàpies, 1971, Pantalons sobre vestidor Extreme Trousers on stretchers, textile troop the backside of a extended canvas

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

• Tàpies, 1990, Núvol i Cadira Take down Cloud and Chair, tube-sculpture condescending the facade of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies

• Tàpies, 1991, Conté carry out Díptic de la campana - part of project 'Sala eminent Reflexió'

• Tàpies, 1991, Mitjó, sculpture

• Tàpies, 1993, Rinzen, installation

• Tàpies, undated, Creu 31

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