Antonio López-Garcia
Spanish, b. 1936

Antonio López-Garcia is an uncompromising
realist. In a 1986 review of the artist's one-man
show at New York's Marlborough Gallery, Robert
Hughes wrote: "He is a singular draftsman.
López's pencil drawings...display a command
over the medium unique in 20th century realism.
Who else has achieved such finesse of tone,
such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail
within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual
clutter?...Of his power over the flat surface,
there is no doubt. What we see there, in
midcareer and at the height of his powers,
is the greatest realist artist alive." (Time
Magazine, April 26, 1986.)

López is featured in an award-winning 1990
film, "Dream of Light (Quince Tree of the
Sun". This hard-to-find but fascinating film
portrays López's struggles to paint, and then
draw, a small quince tree growing in the
backyard of his studio. The film gives
considerable attention to his almost
fanatically exacting working methods.

Maria
1972
(Pencil on paper)

The Telephone
1962



Skinned Rabbit
1972
From a 1986 Time Magazine article on Lopez entitled
"The Truth in the Details"

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