Informalismo antoni tapies biography

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One of the great Spanish artists of the XX century, Antoni Tàpies is also a worldwide known figure in the contemporary Fine Arts. Having had a long vital and artistic trajectory, his career spans from the early 1940’s to his death in 2012.

He is considered one of the leading figures of informalism, an artistic style that sums up the different abstract art techniques and tendencies in the art world after the II World War.

Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)

Antoni Tàpies was born in Barcelona in 1923, and he started being interested in the art world from a very early age, pursuing a self-taught education in art and drawing.

As he said later in his memories, the tension between the anticlericalism of his father and the devote Christianity of his mother forced him to look for his own form of spirituality, which he found in Zen Buddhism. This early elements of difference forged his unique character, aside from Antoni Tàpies - Biography, Artworks & Exhibitions — Galerie Sarto SIH