ARTISTS Painters (realists)

Author: Argüelles, Abreu Bastos, Gabino, etc
Publisher: NOVAGALICIA EDICIONS
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Features: ARTISTAS PINTORES studies in depth the most representative artists of the country. In the investigation of life and work, more than thirty historians and art critics participate, always the most qualified and specialized in each artist.



Artistas Pintores stands out not only for its design and texts, but also for the maximum quality achieved in photography, photo-mechanics, printing, and binding.



Artistas Pintores has a great international projection. We export to Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, USA, Costa Rica, England...



Volumes of 416 pages, 32x24cm, in luxury edition.



More than 500 reproductions in full color and texts written by a team of renowned critics and historians.



Paper: Creator Silk of 200 grams.



The reproductions occupy more than 75% of the total extension of the book.



Binding: Cialux in hardcover with a French binding, with four double covers, plasticized in gloss.





In the 60s and 70s, realism acquires a particular richness. Intimate realism, which we find in the work of Gabino, with a more expressionist and neofigurative style in the works of Julio Argüelles, Felipe Criado, and Enrique Ortiz; magical interpretation of objects and spaces in Elena Gago (someone called the work of Rogelio Puente or Jesús Caulonga hyperrealism); strengthened by the irrealism in Alfonso Costa, as is the landscape of Quesada and Abreu. They are different ways of approaching the social reality of the existential space and nature.





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Faro, 21-XI-97



“Spain is an art country. Artistas Pintores is the great editorial pop of Spanish art of the century, for its valuable content and the care of its presentation.”

ABC, 9-IX-98



“A work of pharaonic proportions. A miracle for Spanish creators.”

El punto de las artes, 18/24-IX-98



“This is the most important work so far realized in the material of Spanish art, of universal reach.”

La Prensa, Mexico, 26-XI-00