The realistic painting in the modern art has taken as an object the representation of a quite varied subject-matter, from dead natures, up to urban stages, portraits, sceneries, interior scenes andhuman figures.
As reaction to the romanticism, arises in France at the end of the XIXth century a pictorial current named pictorial realism, which looks for the interpretation of the reality and of the objective thing from a generally social subject-matter. They stand out inside the pictorial realism authors as Daumier and Courbet, as well as the School of Barbizón, with his fantastic sceneries and authors like Rousseau, Millet and Corot.
The realistic painting is characterized basically by the mimesis or the imitation of the nature, although not necessary this one has why to give mimesis so that a painting is realistic. His premeditation is to receive, to express and to transmit the reality as faithfully as possible.
The realistic painting neither supports in his pictorial surface a search of the feelings by means of the color, as it happens with the movements expressionists, he nor looks for the transmission by means of a schematic representation of the reality, not abstract either, simply he tries to reflect faithfully what our eyes receive.
The small anarchist, 1927
Collection Carmen Ferrer, Madrid
The Box of Segovia inaugurates on July 11 an exhibition devoted to the Spanish painter Horacio Ferrer (1849-1978). The sample takes as a target to claim Ferrer's figure in the history of the painting, emphasizing his work to beginning of last century and his commitment from the art with his time.
The retrospective shows works of all his trajectory, with pieces of his beginnings in the 20s with the naturalistic current, happening for his nudes, to end in mature realism.
We could not close the week of another form: Antonio López García, the big Spanish artist who has been a news in what it goes of this year.
The simplicity of an artist that I am sure will go down in history … that more than he itself to tell what his art is and that today one of the most important artists of the Spanish and international stage.
The picture Madrid from Torresblancas, a spectacular sight of the Spanish capital created by the painter Antonio López, is one of the most important works of the Spanish realistic school.
Graffito between 1976 and 1982, the image shows a city of cold colors under a pale sky. It is the city of Madrid, which turns out to be solitary and oneiric, across a skill more nearby to the realism than to the hyper-realism. The drawing, pondered and precise, it prevails on the pictorial thing, although in contrast to other works it allows to take more for the spontaneous line, creating an ambience strangely alive, and at the same time inert. To keep on reading»
Today it is a day of celebrations for Spain, not only about the Euro it is possible to say Cup, since finally we have the result of the auction of Christie's: Madrid from White Towers was finished off by 1, 74 million euros, what converts it to Antonio López García into the most expensive living Spanish painter of the moment.
Pitifully the picture did not come to the estimation that was foreseen, which was about the 1, 9 to 2, 5 million euros, but of equal form it has managed to turn into a sales record for the history of Spanish art.
