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Spanish Fine Art
López Canito
Lopez Canito is an artist specialized in bullfighting themes, born in Madrid, in the district
of Las Ventas in 1942. He has designed numerous posters in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela,
and Ecuador. He has also authored numerous bullfighting calendars and illustrations for
magazines such as ‘El Ruedo’ and ‘El Taurino gráfico’. He has presented more than 60
solo exhibitions in Spain, the United States, Colombia, etc, and has been honored with various
awards and prizes. His works can be found in museums around the world and especially in the
bullfighting museums of Ronda and Valencia.
He is the bullfighting painter par excellence, his paintings emphatically combine composition,
form and color. The bullfighting festivities acquire new dimensions in his work, becoming dynamic
and thoroughly nationalist , or what is the same, deeply universal.
From the brush of Lopez Canito flows the essence of the taurine atmosphere, of the multicolor
arena, of the red cape and sword. In his canvases, the embodiment of the aesthetics happens,
which is pure poetry; Music is poetry without words. Architecture is poetry conveyed in three di-
mensions, and essentially nothing is more poetic than the plastic arts, where color and form play
gracefully under the sign of Dionysos and Apollo.
Of course, the creating powers of men, which gives them a divine status, is born within their sensi-
tive world, in the spirit of their race, in the occult and magical sense of their history. Lopez Canito
achieves universality, full and final humanism, which can only exist in art.
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López Canito
Lopez Canito is an artist specialized in bullfighting themes, born in Madrid, in the district
of Las Ventas in 1942. He has designed numerous posters in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela,
and Ecuador. He has also authored numerous bullfighting calendars and illustrations for
magazines such as ‘El Ruedo’ and ‘El Taurino gráfico’. He has presented more than 60
solo exhibitions in Spain, the United States, Colombia, etc, and has been honored with various
awards and prizes. His works can be found in museums around the world and especially in the
bullfighting museums of Ronda and Valencia.
He is the bullfighting painter par excellence, his paintings emphatically combine composition,
form and color. The bullfighting festivities acquire new dimensions in his work, becoming dynamic
and thoroughly nationalist , or what is the same, deeply universal.
From the brush of Lopez Canito flows the essence of the taurine atmosphere, of the multicolor
arena, of the red cape and sword. In his canvases, the embodiment of the aesthetics happens,
which is pure poetry; Music is poetry without words. Architecture is poetry conveyed in three di-
mensions, and essentially nothing is more poetic than the plastic arts, where color and form play
gracefully under the sign of Dionysos and Apollo.
Of course, the creating powers of men, which gives them a divine status, is born within their sensi-
tive world, in the spirit of their race, in the occult and magical sense of their history. Lopez Canito
achieves universality, full and final humanism, which can only exist in art.
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