Monday, December 23, 2019

Artist of the day, December 23: Tomás Sánchez, a Cuban painter and engraver (#871)

Tomás Sánchez (1948) is a Cuban painter and engraver, known for his landscapes. Sánchez is the most expensive living Cuban painter. Usually, critics and curators have linked his work to the experience of meditation.

Sánchez is the eldest of two sons of a middle-class family; his father was a sugar worker and businessman and his mother shared with him the sensibility for painting.

At 16, in 1964, he moved to Havana and began to study painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro. In 1966 he interrupted his studies and later, in 1967, moved to the newly founded National Art School (ENA), where he graduated in 1971. Also in 1971, he was awarded the First Prize of Drawing for Young Artists at the National Exhibition of Arts.

From his graduation until 1976, Sánchez remained in the National Art School as an engraving professor; in 1975 won the First Prize in Painting and the First Prize in Lithography at the National Salon of Professors and Instructors of Art in Havana. From 1976 to 1978, Sánchez worked as a stage designer at the Teatro de Muñecos (Children's Theater) of the Ministry of Culture (Cuba).

In 1980 he won the First Prize at the XIX Edition of the International Prize of Drawing Joan Miró, for his work Desde las aguas blancas, which launched his international career. The following year, he had an exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation, Centre of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain.

His work has been exhibited in over 30 countries. Among his most significant personal exhibitions include Tomás Sánchez. Retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (1985); Tomás Sánchez. Different Worlds at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, (1996). In May 2008, Sánchez celebrated his 60th birthday with a big show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey Mexico.

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Mr. Tomás Sánchez

Tomas Sanche"s landscape paintings have launched him up to the highlight of the contemporary arts
1990, Aguas ocultas en la selva
1990, Hombre y Arroyo
1993, Orilla 
1995, Buscador de un Lugar a la Orilla
1995, La Luz diagonal y el contemplator
1995, Meditator a las Ocho am
1995, Retorno al Palmar de la Laguna
1996, Meditador entre aguas
1998, Nundación de rio se aquas  blancas
2000, La Espera
2001, Orilla
2001, Tree Island⁣
1994, Orilla
2005, Buscador de paisajes
2005, The Cave of the Heart
2008, Cascada con dos contempladores
2009, Visión de orilla

2013, Los Cuatros Elementos

2015, Contemplador de la  cascada
2016, Orilla
2016, Untitled
2017, Thought Cloud
2018, Meditador, laguna, nube
2018, Meditador, nube, río
A la Orilla






















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