Obras de antoni tapies biography

Over the six decades that he devoted to art, Antoni Tàpies, now universally recognised as one of the most important artists working in the second half of the 20th century, always showed his concern about the humanity’s problems and conflicts. In his painting, which was often austere yet, at the same time, full of force and expression, he seeks to find his own personal iconography, to respond to the basic questions about human beings and to demonstrate that beauty and transcendence can often be found in the humblest objects.

Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923 into a well-to-do Catalan family, cultured, political and bookish, who transmitted to him the love for books, reading and culture in general.
He saw the disasters of the Spanish Civil War whilst in his teens, and this was an experience that would mark him forever. Later, whilst still very young and suffering from a lung disease, he was forced to spend a long period convalesc

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