View Antonio Lopez study in May 2011, with the picture of the royal family.
Antonio López (Tomelloso, 1936) has completed the picture of the royal family who was commissioned ago over 20 years, this newspaper has confirmed the new director of National Heritage, José Luis Díez. But how could it be otherwise in this novel artistic enterprise, the history, not the time has come to catch the manchego painter. When the work was in the Royal Palace getting its finishing touches, the main character goes and abdicates. So the anticipated canvas had to be renamed. And so it was that happened to be called The royal family The family of Juan Carlos I.
With new name or not, the work is called to star The portrait in the Royal Collection , magna exhibition in which the coveted box will be released on the occasion of an opening scheduled for late November or early December. Will Satisfy the huge expectations raised for years? Ten, one of the privileged few who has seen it in the flesh at the offices of the Royal Palace, where he arrived just over a year, believes so. “I was afraid of finding something that was not up to par, but I can say that is a really important picture,” says the expert. His artistic opinions come he supported for 26 years of service as chief curator of nineteenth-century painting in the Prado before accepting in January his current position.
was when Díez began with some urgency to prepare the Curated by Carmen García Frías and Javier Jordán de Urries, conservative household. The piece of Antonio López serve to close an exhibition that offers a journey through the Spanish monarchy through the way in which the artists represented from that sublime Isabella , John Flanders (which can only be provided on demand in the hidden public gallery of paintings from the Royal Palace) to the latest addition to the catalog of Lopez, Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 1985 and the great painter of perfection or parsimony, as you look .
“I know the beginning of the job. Finishing not know what it is,” said the artist sometimes. “A work is never finished, it will reach the limits of his own ability.” Lopez has also stated that he would love to portray the current kings, Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia, but joked, “try to be a little faster” in that order. The artist dismissed, told El País, the abdication of King añadiese pressure to work. “I go every day, from 12:00 to 17:00, without break for lunch, the Royal Palace. I do what I can with the difficulties of making a request. Difficult thing was not caught grudge.” However, the painter did not repent of the order and confirmed that Don Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia had not seen the play.
The group portrait made from a photo of the former kings in their time singleness, presents a family into the middle of his story, in a moment of glory. And he will face in the last room of the exhibition, as has been told this newspaper, he who Juan Carlos I did Salvador Dali and delivered (in date and form) in 1979.
When the exhibition closed by its doors in April 2015, the picture will become part of the Royal Collections Museum, whose opening is planned for early 2016 course that is another (hard) artistic enterprise.
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