The importance of precision in Antonio López García

Abstract

Following the pictorial chronology of the work of Antonio López, it is clear that he begins with the orthodox system he learnt in Fine Arts, he then goes on to develop the leaning picture and fi nally implements the spherical perspective. In order to analyse this evolution and verify the growing precision of the forms, we must study the basic geometrical information provided by the works of art and we can then compare them with the photo-collage performed on our bathroom model, a motif represented so many times by the artist. In the vertical perspective pictures, Antonio has not yet developed a strict measuring methodology and therefore the shapes refl ect inevitable imbalances. It is in the tilted picture where the painter refl ects a view more committed to reality and for this he resorts to tools (set square and compass), which allow him to be more precise. If the aspect of the verticals is altered in this system, in the following one (the curvilinear one) all aspects (altitude and latitude) are aff ected. Th ese formal changes are due to the longitudinal transcriptions of the real elements, together with great intuition, since the artists lacked theoretical knowledge of spatial systems. Nonetheless, Antonio achieved a growing physical exactitude.