Who was antoni Tapies?
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi. əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.
What type of artist was antoni Tapies?
Modern art
InformalismAbstract expressionismTachisme
Antoni Tàpies/Periods
What materials did Antoni Tapies use?
Imposing matter over form, he began using new artistic materials such as sand, marble dust or coloured earth. These works, the so-called ‘matter paintings’ were heavily influenced by scientific studies on the constituent elements of matter, of atoms and subatomic particles.
What is informel art?
BlaufeuerInformalism / Artwork
What is Antoni Tapies known for?
əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.
What inspired Antoni Tapies?
Tàpies started as a surrealist painter, his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró; but soon become an informal artist, working in a style known as pintura matèrica, in which non artistic materials are incorporated into the paintings.
What was Antoni Tapies known for?
Antoni Tàpies, in full Antoni Tàpies Puig, marqués de Tàpies, (born December 13, 1923, Barcelona, Spain—died February 6, 2012, Barcelona), Catalan artist, credited with introducing contemporary abstract painting into Spain.
What is Informalism art?
How do you pronounce Tapies?
An·to·ni [ahn-taw-nee] or An·to·nio [ahn-taw-nyaw], 1923–2012, Spanish painter.
What influenced Antoni Tapies?
Tàpies’s early work was influenced by the art of Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró, and by Eastern philosophy. His art was exhibited for the first time in the controversial Salo d’Octubre, Barcelona, in 1948.