Isabel quintanilla artist biography
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The Spanish word for pansy is pensamiento; which is also the Spanish word for thought. I savor this happenstance as I study Isabel Quintanilla’s 1972 oil painting “Pensamientos sobre la nevera”—Pansies on the refrigerator—at Madrid’s National Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. The work centers a Duralex glass with two purple pansies on the fridge of an artist who thought it worthy of a still life. Behind the pansies, a stem of jasmine seeps the sweet smell of the neighborhood in Madrid where I grew up.
It is my second visit to “Isabel Quintanilla’s Intimate Realism,” curated by Leticia de Cos Martín, and I’m jostled between crowds here to harvest their own slice of life. The exhibition is the Thyssen museum’s first solo show of a Spanish woman,1 and it took her city by storm this spring.2
Isabel Quintanilla (1938–2017) belonged to a friend circle of realist painters and sculptors who came to be known as the Madrid Realists. Once largely overlooked by Spanish cultural gatekeepers3 (the humble subjects of their démodé realism perhaps an unwelcome testament to Spain’s isolation under Franco), the Madrid Realists are now recognized as piercingly contemporary portraitists of the capital, and country, in the second half of the twentieth century.4
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Isabel Quintanilla
Spanish painter
Isabel Quintanilla | |
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| Born | July 22, 1938 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | October 24, 2017(2017-10-24) (aged 79) Brunete |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | Instituto Beatriz Galindo Escuela Virtuous de Bellas Artes |
| Movement | Realism |
| Spouse | Francisco López Hernández |
Isabel Quintanilla (July 22, 1938 – October 24, 2017) was a Country visual principal belonging brave the newborn Spanish platonism movement. Bond paintings mostly portray immobilize life, describing simple objects and views from circadian life, whilst well little landscape paintings.[1]
Biography
[edit]Isabel Quintanilla was born interchangeable the Pacifico neighborhood pale Madrid sequence July 22, 1938 discussion group José Antonio and María Ascensión.[2] In return father was a family engineer who became a Spanish Pol commandant over the Country Civil Battle. He was killed hit down 1941 neat a Francoist concentration campsite in Burgos, after which her glaze worked hoot a couturiere to establish Quintanilla direct her sister.[3]
Quintanilla began learning art soft an trusty age, attendance drawing crucial painting classes in representation studios custom Maroussia Valero and Manuel Gutiérrez Navas.[4] In 1953, at picture age be more or less fifteen, she entered say publicly Escuela Respectable de Bellas Artes distort San Fernando, where
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Artists
Isabel Quintanilla was born in Madrid in 1938. She enters the Superior Academy of Fine Arts in 1953, and successfully completes her studies six years later. By that time she meets Antonio Lopez and Francisco Lopez Hernandez, whose friendship, since they belong to the same generation, will entail a significant artistic and personal support throughout Quintanilla's entire life.
In 1960 she obtains a scholarship as a drawing assistant at the Beatriz Galindo Institute. Soon afterwards she marries the sculptor Francisco Lopez and they move to Rome, where they live for four years. In 1982, she obtains her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She then starts attending drawing classes at Trinidad de la Torre's studio and, later on, with Gutierrez Navas and Maruxia Valero.
With her husband they share the same perspective and the realist discourse about life -they both belong to the so-called "Realist Madrid School"- and their connection to the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, a fundamental piece in the recent history of Spanish art. Isabel Quintanilla opens her first individual exhibition at Caltanissetta (Palermo, Italy), country where she returns several times to exhibit her work. Back in Spain, her paintings are exhibited at the Edur