Ricardo López Cabrera (Cantillana, 1864 - Seville 1950) was a Spanish painter who graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Seville, with his teachers Eduardo Cano and José Jiménez Aranda.
Biography
After his first Seville stage, in 1887 he moved to Rome to continue his studies, thanks to an opposition called by the Provincial Council of Seville to cover a seat of pensioner, who won. He stayed there for four years. "The mastery of drawing and the study of perspective was one of his main artistic concerns ... always within a rigorous academic spirit." 1 A sample of this is his work Gladiator (1888), which is exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Of Seville, "a life-size figure of a victorious gladiator from the Roman circus." 2 He appears naked, showing his musculature, and painted some landscapes in Venice in these years outside Spain.
Returning to his hometown, he married on October 2, 1895 with Rosario, daughter of Jiménez Aranda who began to practice as his teacher in this time, in which he enjoyed prestige. It realizes a work in the house of the Marquesses of Angulo, in the dormitory, in whose ceiling it represents the apotheosis of the Arts, in the year 1899. In 1906 is named member of the Real Academy of Beautiful Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungary of Seville .
In 1909 he settled in Argentina, due to the scarcity of commercial possibilities for his work in the Seville capital, residing in the city of Cordoba until 1923. During this period he combined his artistic activity with the teaching in the School of Fine Arts. He preferred this city to establish himself in Buenos Aires (axis of artistic culture) for its placidity, since, as expressed by his son, he "fled whenever he could from the traffic of big cities. These made her nervous. "
In February of 1923 he returned to Spain, dedicating five years to painting fifteen triptychs on customs of the different Spanish regions: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Baleares, Canarias, Castile la Nueva, Castile la Vieja, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, León, Murcia, Navarra, Valencia and Basconia. Each triptych consists of a central canvas, almost square, 1.25 x 1.50 m and two lateral lower height of 1.10 x 0.85, all of them painted in the natural, without photographs or professional models, in their places of origin. It was called by him "the work", to which he granted so much importance that in order to finance it occasionally he had to make exhibitions and portraits intended for sale. All together measure 48 meters in length. "The central canvases corresponding to the two archipelagos - the Balearic and the canary - represent landscapes, without any human figure. All the others collect figures of men and women with popular costumes of their respective regions, on typical backgrounds, indoor or outdoor ".4
He remained in Spain until his death in Seville on January 7, 1950 at age 85, although in these last years of life he had health problems (senile dementia) that kept him away from painting.
His artistic production includes a broad theme, in his first stage he deals with the theme of costumbrista or the "casacones", to the portrait and the landscape, including several works realized in the Andalusian coast of Rota and Chipiona, with subjects of fishermen, being clearly Perceptible influence of Sorolla in these works.
In its stage of maturity the regional subjects predominate and landscapes, especially those of Alcala de Guadaira to the outskirts of Seville.
Selection of Works
The Gladiator (1888) exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville.
The Story of the Grandfather (1890)
The Nanny (1895)
The Boyfriend's Journey (1896)
For the Homeland (1897)
The Market of Seville (1897)
The grape walk in Andalusia (1903)
Good Fishing (1904)
Newlyweds (c.1905) currently exhibited at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga.
Loading the boat (1907)
Sweet dream (1913)
Argentine Ranches (1918)
The Dining Room of the Poor (1920)
Portrait of José Jiménez Aranda preserved at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Huerta de Sevilla.
References
VALDIVIESO, E., History of Sevillian painting. Centuries XIII to XX. Ediciones Guadalquivir, S.L., Sevilla, 1986. P.446.
Bernardino de Pantorba, The painter López Cabrera. Biographical and critical essay. Spanish Bibliographic Company, Madrid, 1966. p.13
Ibid.:p.25.
Ibid.:p.42.
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