Observing everyday things, Antonio Lopez Garcia paints them with the astounded clarity of a man seeing the world for the first time. For more than five decades, he has painted ordinary people and ...

Antonio López García is the titular head of the Madrid Realists, a group of painters and sculptors little known outside of Spain. They are bound Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of ...

I love the special visual essays pioneered by Slate magazine. The latest, written by Christopher Benfrey, focuses on Antonio Lopez Garcia, the underappreciated yet great realist painter. Lopez Garcia ...

If Antonio Lopez-Garcia's "Lucio's Balcony" were not a great painting on its own, then the circumstances of its creation would clinch the matter. It took the 72-year-old Spanish realist 28 years to ...

I recently found the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child on Netflix. It isn't great, but a good bit of it is pretty interesting. I particularly like the footage that was taken from an ...

Observing everyday things, Antonio Lopez Garcia paints them with the astounded clarity of a man seeing the world for the first time. For more than five decades, he has painted ordinary people and ...