Lucio Muñoz

Lucio Muñoz (* December 27, 1929 in Madrid, † May 24, 1998 ) was a Spanish painter. His works on wood are remarkable. In the mid- 1960s, Muñoz increasingly interested for the everyday. His portraits and objects, his depictions of animals and dead people show the clear influence of the realistic point of view.

Life and work

Muñoz was expelled from school and has therefore worked in his father's shop. Later he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ( Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando ), where he was a student of Eduardo Chicharro. After he had finished his academic education, he learned the realists from Madrid as Antonio López, the brothers Julio and Francisco Lopez Hernandez and Amalia Avia ( later his wife ) know.

1956 Lucio Muñoz got a scholarship from the French government. There, he studied with the work of Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet. The resulting work of Muñoz then be attributed to the Informalism. In 1983, he won the Spanish National Prize for Fine Arts. 1989 dedicated the Museo Reina Sofía de Madrid his work an anthology exhibition.

Lucio Muñoz worked with different materials such as burnt paper, wood, etc. He pierced, ripped, made cuts in the canvas, like a informalistischer artists. His informal works are colorful, but black dominates. In the end, his style was less aggressive because he used other materials.