About

 

ArteGuillermoLopez is a website that shows artworks in different techniques, as well as diverse drawings and portraits. Here it is also possible to consult information on such pictorial works, read some articles about painters and contact with the author.

Guillermo López was born in 1973 in Monforte de Lemos and is degree on Labour Relations.

Courses:

What is contemporary art? from MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.) Final course grade 100 % 2020.

In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting (Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.) Final course grade 96.6 % 2017.

Modern Art & Ideas from MoMa (Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.) Final course grade 92.5 % 2016.

Arte & Internet UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) score of 97 % 2016.

The Beginnings of the Modern Printed Culture: Graphic Illustration, Visual Culture and Urban Life. UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) 2017.

Since very early was interested in drawing and painting. Self-taught, learn from books and great masterpieces of all times as his best teachers.
He tried out diverse techniques as graphite, crayon graphite, charcoal, crayons, water colours and ink before went into oil and lately acrylics (using nowadays all of them, being the acrylics his favourite technique)
His most significant influences are Turner, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Kandinsky, Munch, Hopper, Rembrandt, Goya and Antonio López.

He is also into photography and literature as a poet and fiction writer. He wrote articles mainly based on famous movie artists, writers, musicians, etc for a weekly local newspaper and colaborate in some websites like HA! and TodoFilmNoir. One short novel, a lot of stories and hundreds of poems were written since the end of the eighties until now.