Michael Mont
2/9/2012
Antoni Tàpies
I recently read the article in the New York Times called “Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88.” This article is about the life of the Spanish painter who has recently passed, and this article also describes some of the wonderful pieces that he left behind. The article was written by William Grimes and is in the New York Times. William Grimes is a very talented art critic because he very crafty with his adjectives and makes a lot of art references. William Grimes is uses a lot of adjectives to describe Antoni Tàpies work. A major downside to this art critic for me is that he contrasts Antoni Tàpies artwork with others. For example, “Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH-pea-ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work.” As someone who is not familiar with many different types of artwork, I have no idea who Miro and Klee are; therefore, the comparison is useless to me. But I’m sure someone who is familiar with those referenced artists would appreciate it more.
Antoni Tàpies has a very primitive style when it comes to his paintings. He usually likes to paint things that look very basic, but then they’ll have an abstract element to it. For example one painting has a shape that is very similar to a church in shape, but the way it is drawn is rather odd; the lines are very wavy like teeth and there is an eerie looking cross atop the shape. A unique element to his style is that most of the paintings look like cave paintings. The image I just described to you has a beige cave like color which cause the art to look so primitive.
Overall this article was a good read. Grimes’s writing is very descriptive, and he has a strong art background. The author does a good job in describing the art work and the history of Antoni Tàpies. The Artist Antoni Tàpies will surely be missed, and many of his interesting abstract paintings are defiantly worth the view.
2/9/2012
Antoni Tàpies
I recently read the article in the New York Times called “Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88.” This article is about the life of the Spanish painter who has recently passed, and this article also describes some of the wonderful pieces that he left behind. The article was written by William Grimes and is in the New York Times. William Grimes is a very talented art critic because he very crafty with his adjectives and makes a lot of art references. William Grimes is uses a lot of adjectives to describe Antoni Tàpies work. A major downside to this art critic for me is that he contrasts Antoni Tàpies artwork with others. For example, “Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH-pea-ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work.” As someone who is not familiar with many different types of artwork, I have no idea who Miro and Klee are; therefore, the comparison is useless to me. But I’m sure someone who is familiar with those referenced artists would appreciate it more.
Antoni Tàpies has a very primitive style when it comes to his paintings. He usually likes to paint things that look very basic, but then they’ll have an abstract element to it. For example one painting has a shape that is very similar to a church in shape, but the way it is drawn is rather odd; the lines are very wavy like teeth and there is an eerie looking cross atop the shape. A unique element to his style is that most of the paintings look like cave paintings. The image I just described to you has a beige cave like color which cause the art to look so primitive.
Overall this article was a good read. Grimes’s writing is very descriptive, and he has a strong art background. The author does a good job in describing the art work and the history of Antoni Tàpies. The Artist Antoni Tàpies will surely be missed, and many of his interesting abstract paintings are defiantly worth the view.
Work Cited
Grimes, W.
(2012, Febuary 6). Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88. New
York Times. New York Times. Retrieved Febuary 8, 2012, from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/arts/design/antoni-tapies-spanish-abstract-painter-dies-at- 88.html?pagewanted=1&ref=design
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