Antoni TÀPIES

Native placeBarcelona, ESP
Birth1923
Dead placeBarcelona, ESP
Died2012

Biography

Tàpies was born in Barcelona, Spain. After studying law at Barcelona University from 1943 to 1946, he studied painting on his own and began making collages of strings and papers attached to thickly-painted surfaces. In the latter half of the 1940s he worked in a late Surrealist style. In 1950 he went to Paris for a year on a government grant. In 1953 he visited New York for a one-man show at the Martha Jackson Gallery and entered into a contract with the gallery. From this period on, he developed a unique style in which materials were decisive element. He made relief paintings with mysterious symbols and forms on an earth-colored ground composed of a mixture of glue, plaster, and sand. In 1957 he helped found the informalist group El Paso in 1957. He is one of the most important Spanish painters since Miró and Dalí.

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