The painter Antonio Lopez (Tomelloso, 1936) has now completed its portrait of the Royal Family, headed by Juan Carlos I, who began painting nearly two decades ago and will be displayed at the end year a major exhibition that prepares National Heritage . Close to the organization of the exhibition sources have confirmed to EFE that the painting is finished, as the artist was committed before the summer, and ready to join the show The Portrait in the royal collections. Juan Antonio López Flanders that is scheduled to open in late November at the Royal Palace of Madrid.
The exhibition will be an extensive tour with very valuable works, the history of the portraits of the monarchs Spanish, from Isabella to this day. On the canvas of the painter manchego, large, mark the end of this walk through history and on it Kings appear Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, accompanied by his three sons: the current monarch, Philip VI, and the Princesses Elena and Cristina , all without their partners, as they were when Antonio López began to paint in 1994.
The last strokes the painter has given the Royal Palace itself, where the picture was moved over a year ago. There has got to finish Antonio López, ending a lengthy and meticulous execution that has sometimes been considered controversial . “I’m doing my best to make it right, whatever but make it good, I’m that kind of Spanish,” he said tired of talking about it almost two years ago.
The table was commissioned in 1994 by National Heritage from a still single in 1992 “photo Don Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia and their children I start many works, it costs very little, if I have this anxiety to start but then, in many cases the work remains parked, I have lots of work as well, “explained the painter Cultural another time, whose unwavering artistic standards was reflected in the film Dream of Light Victor Erice. “A work -aseguraba- never runs out, but reached the limits of his own ability.”
In this case the portrait of the Royal Family, Antonio Lopez acknowledged that the delay has been extreme. “But I will not care, I work well. Who has painted a Royal Family? It’s like writing War and Peace ,” he said. About the picture we also explained the painter who had been the canvas of the Royal Family which reconciled him with the human figure, “relegated” somehow to sculpture in his work.
“Five people, life size, a little older, as experience in the representation of the human figure has been impressive.’m Excited to see this group and so maybe I could work so long, take it and leave it relentlessly. Contemplation of that picture has me bound to the human figure, “he said. Discouragement has not, therefore, which has delayed the delivery of this painting. It is, as always, due to the changes. The only figure that has remained intact was that of King Juan Carlos . “He’s still in the same place at the same size, all the others have been moving around. He is the center.”
Now you can finally see the result. After the exposure, which can be seen for the first time until April 2015, is expected that the oil crash chairing a meeting of the Royal Palace, later to become part of the Museum of the Royal Collections , whose opening is expected in 2016 .
This museum will have a room dedicated to the reign of Juan Carlos I, in the box besides the Antonio López, other canvases of contemporary art acquired by the monarchy will be shown during this period.
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