Ignacio Zuloaga

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta July 26, 1870 – October 31, 1945 was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar (Guipuzcoa), near the monastery of Loyola. Contents   1Family 2Biography 3Zuloaga during and after the Spanish Civil War 4Gallery 5References 6Further reading 7External links Family He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer

Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà /mɪˈroʊ/ mi-ROH; also US: /miːˈroʊ/ mee-ROH, Catalan: ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983 was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive

Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660 was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period. He began to paint in a precise tenebrist style, later developing

Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies Catalan: ; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012 was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. Contents   1Life 2Work 2.1Graphic work 2.2Essays 3Movements 4Exhibitions 5Legacy 6Recognition 7Gallery of works 8See also 9Notes 10References 11External links

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention

Carlos Pacheco

Carlos Pacheco /pəˈtʃɛkoʊ/; born November 14, 1962 is a Spanish comics artist and penciller. He is best known in the United States for his work on titles such as Avengers Forever, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Green Lantern. Contents   1Career 2Bibliography 2.1DC Comics 2.2Image Comics 2.3Marvel Comics 3References 4External links Career Early in his career, Carlos Pacheco did some work for Planeta-DeAgostini Comics, an

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo /mjʊəˈrɪloʊ, m(j)ʊˈriːoʊ/ mewr-IL-oh, m(y)uu-REE-oh; Spanish: ; born late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618 – April 3, 1682 was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars

Joaquín Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Spanish: ; 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923 was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit

Juan Gris

José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez 23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927, better known as Juan Gris (Spanish: ; French: ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement’s most distinctive. Contents   1Life 2Career 3Crystal Cubism 4Designer and theorist 5Death

El Greco

Doménikos Theotokópoulos Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614, most widely known as El Greco (“The Greek”), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. “El Greco” was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, often adding the word Κρής Krēs, Cretan. El Greco was