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“Crisis ?” © Aurelio Rodriguez López |
Name: Aurelio Rodriguez López
URL: http://www.aurelioarte.com/en/ (English)
http://www.aurelioarte.com/ (Spanish)
Bio: Aurelio
Rodriquez López was born in 1958 in Génave, Jaén, Andalucia, and moved to
Madrid to train as an engineer in 1976; after a year he quit university to
become an artist. Like many another Spanish artist he took to painting street
portraits, first in Madrid (where in 1978 he took lessons in Soto Mesa School
of Art), then Marbella in the summer of 1983, and Tenerife in 1991, where he
studied sculpture with Guillermo Batista Diáz. He received a commission from
the royal court of Bahrain in 1996. He has since painted some of the major
players of the world, from the kings of Morocco, Hassan II and Mohammed VI, the late King Fahd
of Saudi Arabia, Tamara and Petra, daughters of Formula 1 boss Bernie
Ecclestone, and members of the rock band Def Leppard, among others.
Rodriguez has
taken several courses in etchings, aquatint, linocut and photogravure, besides
learning lithography from José Montañes Garnica, Spanish Museum of Contemporary
Etchings, Marbella. His picture
Crisis? showing two children looking at a loaf of bread won first prize at the
First International Pastel Biennial in Spain, 2011.
Rodriguez had his
first solo exhibition in 1979 and a retrospective in 1995, with numerous shows
in between. Rodriguez has shown his work in Madrid, León, Marbella, Valencia,
Malaga, Granada, Düsseldorf, Munich, Miami, New York, and London.
Aurelio Rodriguez López lives in Puerto Banús, Marbella.
Aurelio Rodriguez López lives in Puerto Banús, Marbella.
Medium: Pastel;
oil; watercolour; pastels are painted on acrylic plaster.
Subjects:
Landscape; Nudes; Portraits/figurative; Still life
Style: The website
lists: Realism, surrealism, hyperrealism, magic realism and abstract
Navigation: This
website is available in Spanish, French, and English. I have confined my
remarks to the English version. I don’t see any evidence that the site has been
updated in recent years.
Gallery: To see
all the pastels grouped together go to Techniques – Pastel; and to Portraits –
Pastel. There is much more to be viewed in the other gallery pages under
different techniques and media.
Image View: Thumbnails
open in a viewer on same page. Information on medium and size is provided.
Download is possible, although most if not all the images are splashed with a
copyright watermark.Demo: See a brief video on the 2012 BP Portrait Awards and a ten minute interview on YouTube
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