Episcopart pays tribute to Antoni Tàpies, a versatile artist who passed away last year...

1. A tribute to the Catalan artist
Antoni Tàpies
Death of an artist

2. Antoni Tàpies
He was born in 13th December
1923 in Barcelona. He was a
Catalan artist. He loved painting
and he was a famous sculptor.
His pictorical movement was the
informal art. He founded his own
fundation in1990 in Barcelona.
He had a famous teacher, Picasso.
He died in 6 February 2012 in
Barcelona when he was 88 years
old.

3. Zoom
Year: 1946
Technique: Oil on canvas
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Art style: Impressionism
Purpose: Rejection of modern civilization.
The work reveals the desire to return to a pre-industrial world.

5. Newsprint Cross
(Creu de paper de diari)
Year: 1946-1947.
Technique: Paint, ink and collage on paper.
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
Art style: Symbolist.
Purpose: Represents the synthesis of
everything material and spiritual.

7. Parafaragamus
Year: 1949.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
Art style: Cubism and Surrealism.
Purpose: he represents a flower,
describing the flower’s world in a fantastic way.

9. Metal Shutter and Violin
(Porta metàl·lica i violí)
Year: 1995.
Technique: Paint on object-assemblage.
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
Art style: Surrealism and Impressionism.
Purpose: to reveal the spirituality and
beauty that exists in the lowest forms .

11. Year: 1969.
Technique: Assemblage on canvas.
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
Art style: conceptualism.
Purpose: the two opposites that form
the universe: feminine-masculine,
yin-yang, good-evil, up-down.
The fire reached the Earth from a spark
that fell from the sun.

13. Cloud and Chair
Núvol i cadira
Year: 1990.
Technique: Anodised aluminium
and stainless steel.Installation
Location: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
Art style: Informalism/conceptualism.
Purpose: Alludes to a meditative attitude,
thought and the aesthetic contemplation.

15. Mural at the Catalonia pavillion
Year: 1992.
Technique: Acrilic painting on the wall.
Location: Sevilla. (expo Sevilla)
Art style: Informalism.
Purpose: He wanted to show the Catalan influence in Spain.
He show to the people that Catalunya is beautiful and important.

17. Tribute to Picasso
Year: 1981.
Technique: Impressionism and Modernist.
Location: Parc de la Ciutadella.
Art style: Informalism. Sculpture
Purpose: Represents the conformist nature
of a well-to-do society and the rebellion of
another society in the throes of change.

19. Self Portrait
Year: 1945.
Technique: Ink on paper.
Location: Landesmuseum Mainz (Deutschland)
Art style: Surrealism.
Purpose: He wanted to show his own ideas,
and his dreams.

21. The Four Chronicles
Year: 1990.
Technique: Oil on wood.
Location: Palau de la Generalitat.
Art style: abstract.
Purpose: He wanted to show the most 4 important events of the
Catalan history, the Four Chronicles.

23. The End
Ramon Pera Reñé