Antoni Tapies Spanish Informalist Mixed Media – June 6, 2019
Mixed media on paper board. Catalog card label affixed to verso with illegible inscriptions. Another card with open card inscriebd Greetings of the Season with best wishes for the New Year, signed K Kona, President, Houes of Councillors. Attributed to Antoni Tapies (1923-2012, Spanish). 65.5 x 47 cm (25.8 x 18.5 inches)
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Antoni Tapies
Antoni Tapies (1923-2012) was a Spanish artist known for his mixed-media paintings that incorporated marble dust, found objects, and resin. A good example of this can be seen in his seminal work Grey and Green Painting (1957). Furthermore, social themes run throughout his highly textured and tactile paintings. He was influenced by personal experiences of politics and environment of the wartime and the postwar Spanish government. “If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination,” he reflected. “He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.”
Born on December 13, 1923 in Barcelona, Spain, he originally studied law while pursuing art. During that period, he became a friend of fellow Catalan Joan Miró who had an integral influence on Tàpies’s early Surrealist work. Incorporating the scrawling marks of Paul Klee, Tàpies eventually joined the Art Informel movement. As a result, works turned toward the abstract and seemingly prelude the Arte Povera movement. There afterwards, following several decades, the artist became more nuanced in his choice of materials and attempted to convey the accidental marks of walls and graffiti.
He died on February 6, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Today, his works are held in the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Museum in Barcelona, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others.
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