News November 21, 2024 The Studio of Antonio López and María Moreno launches the Virtual Tour his latest monographic show. The Studio of Antonio López and María Moreno presents a virtual tour of his latest exhibition in the Netherlands. This virtual tour has been developed with The Mad Pixel, a Madrid-based company that has worked with museums in Spain and Europe. Thanks to this collaboration, visitors can tour the exhibition in super-high resolution, exploring the space and appreciating every detail with exceptional clarity. The technology allows for powerful zooms, viewing the works at a magnification and detail rarely accessible. The experience also includes a welcome tour with an explanatory audio track in Spanish and English, with accessible subtitles, accompanied by a visual summary of the exhibition, offering a complete and enriching immersion from anywhere in the world. Don't miss the opportunity to explore this unique exhibition in its digital format by clicking here ! March 15, 2024 Opening of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Realism (MUREC) On March 15, the MUREC, a museum dedicated to contemporary Spanish realist art, was inaugurated. His works, among which there are paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings, cover the panorama of this artistic style in Spain from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. One of the fundamental nuclei is the work of the Realists of Madrid, among which there are several paintings and drawings by María Moreno, presented together with the works of her colleagues and friends: Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, Amalia Avia, Julio López and Esperanza Parada. This project is located in the Hospital de Santa María Magdalena in Almería capital, a 16th-century building restored for the occasion. For more information about opening hours and visits to the institution, visit the museum's website here . You can see images of some rooms of the museum on Antonio López's website here . September 12, 2024 New exhibition in Burgos dedicated to Spanish Realism: Infinite Reality The Círculo Burgos Foundation and the Ibercaja bank have organised an exhibition to pay tribute to Spanish realism, which began to develop in the 1950s and 1960s. The Pedro Torrecilla exhibition hall in Burgos houses 47 works by ten artists: Amalia Avia, Julio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, Jorge Hernández, Esperanza Parada, Cristóbal Toral, Carmen Laffón, Antonio López and María Moreno. It can be visited free of charge between 13 September and 10 November 2024. For more information, click here . November 29, 203 to March 31, 2024 Exhibition "Antonio López and the Masters of Spanish Realism" in Shanghai On November 29, 2023, the exhibition "Antonio López and the Masters of Spanish Realism" was inaugurated at the Middle Longhua metro station in Shanghai. It presents 46 reproductions of works by Antonio López, Miguel Ángel Argüello, Amalia Avia, Francisco López, José María Mezquita, Isabel Quintanilla, Julio Vaquero and María Moreno, of whom eight works are included. The Chinese public will have the chance to learn about the evolution of contemporary figurative art in Spain from some of its best representatives. This exhibition is co-organized by the Cervantes Institute, the Spanish Embassy in China and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, with the collaboration of Turespaña, the advice of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum of Madrid and the Antonio López and María Moreno Studio . For more information, click here . April 12, 2024 Inauguration of the exhibition Beyond Realism. Figurative art from China and Spain In honour of 50 years of bilateral relations between China and Spain, the Royal Palace of Madrid has opened an exhibition that will run until May 26, 2024. It is an exhibition of figurative works by 99 contemporary Chinese and Spanish artists called "Beyond Realism. Figurative art from China and Spain." The exhibition offers an overview of figurative art, not simply realism, practised in both countries over the last fifty years. The exhibition opens with a selection of paintings and drawings by Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, María Moreno, Julio López, Amalia Avia, Isabel Baquedano and Carmen Laffón. More information on the National Heritage website by clicking here . March 23 to April 10, 2023 Exhibition of Antonio López at the Modelo prison, with works by María Moreno For only three weeks, you can visit an exhibition of Antonio López in a unique location: the Modelo prison in Barcelona. A small selection of his works occupies several cells in gallery 5 of this former prison, now converted into a cultural centre. In one of these cells, it is displayed a selection of children's heads made by the artist, including four by María Moreno. In them, she represented two of her grandchildren. This exhibition arises in the context of Antonio's collaboration with El Liceu for the concert of Franz Schubert's Winterreise in the same prison. This recital, which will only have three performances, is accompanied by a video in which, under the stage direction of Bárbara Lluch, images of works by Antonio López have been used. For more information, visit the Liceu website: here . You can see images of the exhibition on Antonio López's website: here .

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Home Tribute Video Text TRIBUTE TO MARÍA MORENO Tribute Video A María Moreno Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Embed Video Link Copied Text The painter María Moreno (May 14, 1933, Madrid) passed away in Madrid on the morning of February 17, 2020 at the age of 86. Trained at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid (1954-59), she became a drawing teacher herself during the 1960s. Task that she would leave to devote herself to her artistic creation. She shared her formative years and early career with a group of artists dedicated to depicting reality, with whom she created bonds of friendship that have been lasting over time. Among these Madrid Realists, a name used by critics, were Isabel Quintanilla, Esperanza Parada, Amalia Avia, Francisco and Julio López, as well as her life partner, Antonio López. With him she has shared her artistic concerns, sharing mutual and indispensable support for the progress of their careers. The admiration between them has been a constant. They formed a family with two daughters, María and Carmen, of which María Moreno has been a fundamental pillar. Although her individual exhibitions have not been as numerous as the group shows, due, in part, to the fact that it was not a possibility that she contemplated with great interest; they have been essential for her work to be known and admired by both national and international collectors. To her artistic side we must add that of artistic management, which has been essential for the realization of different creative projects of the couple; including what is one of the most important films on the international film scene dedicated to artistic creation: The Quince Tree Sun , by Víctor Erice. María took over the executive production and, thanks to her determination, the filming of the tape was completed. She was an artist of great sensitivity, who knew not only how to capture reality, but also how to add her emotion and sensitive gaze. She dedicated her talent to paint and draw those subjects that most seduced her, such as the bright landscapes of La Mancha and Madrid, but also her home and garden, as well as flowers and some brilliant still lifes; leaving works of great personal imprint. Her approach to colour and light was progressive, but once she opened her work to light, she would no longer abandoned it. BHC

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Exhibitions List of Shows Exhibitions Exhibitions GROUP SHOW AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES IN LISBON On 26 September 2018 a new venue of the exhibition's The poetics of abstraction and figurative art will be opened at the Cervantes Institute in Rome, located in the Piazza Navona. This exhibition began at the Cervantes Institute in Prague in November 2017. Thirty-five works by some of the most representative artists of the figurative art and abstraction practiced in Madrid in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century can be seen in this exhibition. VIEW MORE EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES IN ROME On September 26, 2018 at the Cervantes Institute in Rome in Piazza Navona, a new venue for the travelling exhibition The Poetry of Abstraction and Figurative Painting , which began at the Cervantes Institute in Prague in November 2017, will be opened. Thirty-five works by some of the most representative artists of Madrid's figuration and abstraction of the fifties and sixties of the 20th century will be seen at this show. VIEW MORE EXHIBITION AT THE INST. CERVANTES PRAGUE, 11/10/2017 TO 10/02/2018 The exhibition The Poetry of Abstraction and Figurative Painting was opened at the Cervantes Institute in Prague, which consists of 35 works by some of the most representative artists of Madrid's figurative and abstraction painting of the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. Works by members of the El Paso group, among whom were Antonio Saura, Luis Feito, Martín Chirino or Rafael Canogar among others; but also paintings by other abstract and figurative artists such as Lucio Muñoz, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno or Antonio López. These last ones although they were not part of any artistic group, maintained ties of friendship and artistic connection, being grouped later by the critic. VIEW MORE INTERPRETED REALITY, SHOW IN FUENLABRADA, MADRID On September 21st, 2017 the exhibition "Interpreted Reality" was inaugurated at the Tomás y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada, which featured works by the top representative artists of the New Spanish Figuration, including a selection of works by Antonio López and María Moreno. The show lasted until November 5. VIEW MORE List of Shows List of Shows EXHIBITIONS OF MARÍA MORENO Solo Exhibitions: 1966 María Moreno . Galería Edurne, Madrid, 23 April–7 May. 1973 María Moreno. Ölbilder Zeichnungen. Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt. 1990 María Moreno. Peintures et dessins . Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. Group Shows: 1962 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Palacio del Retiro, Madrid. 1963 Exposición Concurso Nacional , Badajoz. Concurso Nacional de Castellón. Joven Figuración en España. Organized by Madrid Atheneum in the Ancient Hospital of Santa Cruz, Barcelona. 1964 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Palacio del Retiro, Madrid. 1965 Exposición Concursos Nacionales. Madrid. 1966 Exposición Colectiva . Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid. 1968 25 pintoras actuales. Galería El Bosco, Madrid, 11–29 January. 1969 Exposición Concursos Nacionales 1969. Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid. 1970 Magischer Realismus in Spanien heute. Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt; Galerie Buchholz, Munich, September–October; Galerie Buchholz, Munich, November–December. 1971 Exposición Colectiva. Librería Machado, Madrid. 1972 Pintura femenina española. Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, Madrid. Art’72. Kunstmesse, Basilea. 1973 Art 4 ’73 . Basel Internationale Kunstmesse, Basilea, Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, June. Contemporary Spanish Realists. Marlborough Fine Art, London, September–October. 1974 Ars 74. Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki. Drawings by Ten Contemporary Spanish Artists. Marlborough Gallery, New York. Mujeres ante el Arte. Galería Iolas-Velasco, Madrid. El realismo hoy . Galería Val i 30, Valencia. 1975 Spanische Realisten . Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, October–November. Amalia Avia, Julio L. Hernández, Carmen Laffón, Francisco López, Antonio López García, Antonio López Torres, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla. Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Seville, April–May. Realismus + Realität. Institut Mathildenhöhe, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt. La Mujer en la Cultura Actual. Palacio de Fuensalida, Toledo. Exposición inaugural. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Toledo, Casa de las Cadenas, Toledo. 1976 Pintores manchegos. Banco de Santander, Ciudad Real. Fünf Spanische Realisten . Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Frankfurt. Einblicke–Ausblicke. Fensterbilder von der Romentik bis heute. Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. 1977 Realität, Hiperrealität, Irrealität . Documenta 6, Kassel. Spanische Realisten . María Moreno, Antonio López Garcia, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López. Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg. 1978 10 Kunst-und Antiquitäten-Messe Hannover. Galerie und Orangerie, Hannover-Herrenhausen, April. Als guter Realist muss ich alles erfinden: internationaler Realismus heute. Kunstverein and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 4 Nov. 1978-7 January 1979; Badischer Kunstverein de Karlsruhe, 21 January-4 March, 1979. 1979 Fiac 79. Galerie Negru, Paris. 1980 Spanische Realisten. María Moreno, Antonio López Garcia, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López. Kunstverein Braunschweig Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig, Germany. 1981 Realismo en España. Aula de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Complutense, Madrid. El dibuix. Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca. 1982 I pittori spagnoli della realtà. Centro d’Arte Montebello, Milan. Arco’82. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. 1983 Arco’83. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. Realidades . Institución Cultural El Brocense, Diputación Provincial, Cáceres, May. El dibujo una realidad. Galería Heller, Madrid, July–September. 1984 Mujeres en el Arte Español (1900-1984) . Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Ayto. de Madrid, Madrid. Realistes à Madrid. Saló del Tinell, Departament de Cultura de Catalunya, Barcelona, February. Arte Español en el Congreso . Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid. Resurrección de la naturaleza muerta. Galería Heller, Madrid. 1985 Figuras y figuraciones. Galería Juan Gris, Madrid. 1986 7 Spanish Realists . Claude Bernard Gallery, New York, May–June. 1987 Naturalezas Españolas (1940-1987). Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, November 1987–January 1988. 1988 Realismo y Figuración. Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada, June–July. 1990 El espacio privado. Cinco siglos en veinte palabras. Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, Sala Julio González, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid. 1991 Realismo español. Dos generaciones . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. Realismos, Arte Contemporáneo Español. Asahi Shimbun (Org.), Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo. Roaming exhibition: Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama. Visiones de Madrid. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, May–June. Homenaje a Ortega. Galería de arte Villanueva, Madrid, April–May. 1992 Otra realidad, compañeros en Madrid. Fundación Caja Madrid (January–February). Roaming Exhibition: Fund. M. Botín, Santander (July–August); Centro de Exp. y Congresos, Zaragoza (September–October). Contemporary Spanish Artists . Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, November–December. Madrid pintado. Museo Municipal, Madrid. Artistas en Madrid . Pabellón de la Comunidad de Madrid, Expo’92, Seville. Jardín de vidrio . Bodegones y flores en realidad. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, December 1992–January 1993. APROARTE . Galería Leandro Navarro, Barcelona. 1994 Realismos . Centro Cultural Conde Duque, City Council of Madrid. Arte en dos . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, December 1994–January 1995. Antonio López García . Proceso de un trabajo. Fundación FOCUS, Seville, November 1994–January 1995. Exposición Homenaje a López Torres. Galería Arteta, Madrid. 1995 Artistas de la Galería Malborough. Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña. Realismo español entre dos milenios. Sala de la Pasión, Valladolid (May–June). Roaming Exhibition: Sala de Armas, Ciudadela, Pamplona (June–July); Fundación Caja Rioja, Logroño (September—October); Palacio Almudí, Murcia; Casal Sollería, Palma de Mallorca (February–March 1996). 1996 Desde la Realidad / Dalla Realtà – Quatro Artisti Spagnoli Contemporanei. Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno, Francisco López. Accademia Spagnola di Storia, Archeologia e Belle Arti, Rome. Sensibilidades . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, February–April. Contemporary Spanish Realists . Marlborough Fine Art, London, June–August. Autour de la reálité: réalismes espagnols. Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris. 25 años. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, October–December. 1997 El realismo en sus raíces. Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo. 1998 Paisajes de un siglo. Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, Vitoria. 1999 Interiores. Visiones íntimas de un siglo. Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo. Roaming Exhibition: La Coruña, Lugo, Ourense. Mirar Madrid. Casa de Vacas, City Council of Madrid, Madrid. 2000 Rosas para el 2000. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. 2002 Nuovo Realismo Spagnolo. Galleria Narieschi, Milan. Luz de la mirada. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2002–2003. 2003 Arte axuda Galicia. Fundación Fexdega, Vilagarcía de Arousa. Roaming Exhibition: Vigo, Ourense, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra. 2004 Visiones de la realidad . Caja Vital Kutxa, Vitoria. 2005 Pinceladas de Realidad. Amalia Avia, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla. Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña, Xunta de Galicia, La Coruña. 2006 Realidad, arte spagnola della realtà. Galleria Civica di Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza, Largo Pignatari, 2006–2007. Realidades de la realidad. Ajuntament de Valencia and Caja Castilla La Mancha, Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia. 2007 Im licht der wirklichkeit, Zeitgenössischer realismus in Spanien. Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen. 2008 Cincuenta años después. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, 2008–2009. La feminidad en el arte. Fundación Caja Castellón-Bancaja, Sala Bancaja San Miguel. Creadoras del Siglo XX. Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, June–August. Realidades de la realidad. Caja de Extremadura Obra Social, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Badajoz; Convento de San Francisco, Plasencia; Palacio de Mayoralgo, Cáceres, 2008–2009. 2009 Realidades de la realidad. Caja Duero, Salamanca. 2011 Realidades de la realidad . Fundación Caja Castellón-Bancaja, Sala Bancaja San Miguel, Castellón. 2014 Visiones de la realidad. Caja Canarias Fundación, Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Selección Alumnos Talleres Cátedra Francisco de Goya y sus maestros . Fundación Caja de Ávila, Palacio Los Serrano. De Picasso a Barceló . Galería CCPUCP, Lima, Perú, 2014–2015. 2015 Ellas. Creadoras de los siglos XX y XXI. CAC, Vélez-Málaga, March–April. Gorputz Eta Arima XX. Eta XXI. Mendeetako emakume artistak / En cuerpo y alma. Mujeres artistas de los siglos XX y XXI. Sala Jubo-Kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastián, 19 June–27 September. 2016 Realistas de Madrid . Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 9 February–22 May. Realismo en España 50 años. Sala Baluarte, Centro Cultural Adolfo Suárez, 8 April–16 June. A la mesa. Bodegones en el arte. Museo de Santa Cruz de Toledo. 4 May–4 September. 30 Aniversario . Galería Ansorena, Madrid, 15 September–28 October. Impresiones sobre Noches en los jardines de España. Fundación Caja Rural Granada, Sala Zaida, Granada, 10 November–10 December. 2017 Realistas . Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 19 January-26 March. Bodegones en el arte . Sala Fundación Vital, Vitoria, 1 June-17 September. La apariencia de lo real. Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga, 6 April-10 September. Realidad interpretada. Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, 21 September-5 November. La poética de la abstracción y la figuración . Instituto Cervantes, Praga, 9 November 2017-10 February 2018 2018 La poética de la abstracción y la figuración. Rossiyskaya Academia Khudozhestv, Moscow, 30 March-20 August. Seducidos por la realidad. DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, 20 September 2018-6 January 2019. La poética de la abstracción y la figuración . Instituto Cervantes, Roma, 26 September-12 January 2019. Bodegones en el arte. Engaño y primor en la pintura. Sala Las Claras, Murcia, 4 October-25 November. 2019 La poética entre abstracción y figuración. Arte español en los años 50 y 60. Instituto Cervantes, Lisbon, 19 February-19 April. [February, 2019]

Links to articles about the work of María AGUIRRE, Begoña. “10 artistas contemporáneos exponen su concepto de ‘realismo’ en la Casa del Monte.” El País , 10 January 1992. ARMADA, Alfonso. “La última pincelada. Nueve pintores ante el momento de terminar un cuadro.” El País , 30 December 1986. CAMPOY, A. M. “Arte y artistas. Crítica de exposiciones. María Moreno.” ABC , 3 May 1966: 16. CATALÁN DEUS, José “Estimados realistas de Madrid.” Periodistadigital.com, 8 February 2016. CELDRÁN, Helena. “El Museo Thyssen homenajea a Antonio López y a su círculo en 'Realistas en Madrid'.” 20 minutos , 7 February 2016. FERNÁNDEZ-BRASO, M. “El realismo evocador de María Moreno.” ABC, 13 July 1974: 53-54. FERNÁNDEZ RUBIO, Andrés. “Antonio López y sus compañeros llevan a Roma el ‘realismo madrileño’.” El País , 1 May 1996. GARCÍA, Ángeles. “El realismo madrileño se consagra en el Thyssen.” El País , 4 February 2016: 26. GRANDA, Fernando. “La luz invisible de Antonio López.” La Nueva España , 22 September 2015. J.R. “Figuras y figuraciones.” El ABC de las Artes , 9 May 1985: 105. LUZÁN, Julia. “Mujeres realistas." El País, 3 July 2005. MORENO, María. “La luz de Antonio.” RTVE Website , 8 June 2015. PAJARES, Gema. “No imaginaba que Mari tuviera ese don para pintar.” La Razón , 6 September 2015. PARREÑO, José María. “Retrato al natural de los últimos realistas.” El Cultural , Supplement to El Mundo , 29 enero 2016: 22-25. PULIDO, Natividad. “Artistas, amigos, familiares y residentes.” ABC, 4 February 2016: 52-53. “Realistas de Madrid, invierno en el Thyssen.” Hoyesarte.com , 26 October 2015. RONDÓN, José María. “María Moreno, a la sombra del genio Antonio López.” El Mundo , 19 October 2011. TEJEDOR, Concha. “Un documental recupera a la pintora María Moreno, la “luz” de Antonio López." EFE , 4 September 2015. TRENAS, Mila. “Genialidad, amistad y amor al arte unen a los "Realistas de Madrid." La Vanguardia , 3 February 2016. VALCÁRCEL, Marina “El realismo o el eterno presente.” ABC Cultural, no. 1226, 19 March 2016: 22-23.

Exhibitions Exhibitions List Exhibitions Exhibitions "Infinita realidad" at the Pedro Torrecilla exhibition hall in Burgos A new exhibition dedicated to the Spanish figuration developed in Madrid since the late 1950s has been presented at the Pedro Torrecilla Exhibition Hall in Burgos. It has been jointly organised by Ibercaja Banco and Fundación Círculo Burgos, under the direction of the curator María Toral. Most of the ten artists represented in the exhibition are those known by critics as the “Realists of Madrid”: Isabel Quintanilla, Amalia Avia, María Moreno, Esperanza Parada, Francisco López, Julio López and Antonio López. They have been accompanied by other artists who also trained at the same time and who have practised figuration, in different ways, during their careers: Carmen Laffón, José Hernández and Cristóbal Toral. Among the selection of forty-seven pieces, five paintings by María Moreno from her later years can be seen. Some of her most recurrent themes are included: two still lifes, a garden and two oil paintings of flowers. All of them within her palette of varied and luminous tones. In these works, the role of light on the elements represented is of great importance. The exhibition will be open to the public from 13 September to 10 November 2024. MORE INFO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND SPANISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING. EXHIBITION AT QUAN SHANSHI ART CENTER, HANGZHOU, CHINA Continuing with the Spanish-Chinese collaboration that began last year in the travelling exhibition that showed contemporary figuration from both countries, an exhibition along the same lines can be seen at the Royal Palace of Madrid. Between April 13 and May 26, you can visit this exhibition that, in addition to showing works by some of the representatives of Madrid Realism, including Antonio López and María Moreno, as well as contemporary Spanish artists, you can enjoy a parallel journey through Chinese figuration from the oldest generations to the current ones. For more information, visit the exhibition link by clicking below. MORE INFO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND SPANISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING. EXHIBITION AT QUAN SHANSHI ART CENTER, HANGZHOU, CHINA From November 29, 2023 to March 31, 2024, an exhibition of reproductions of works can be seen in the hall of the Shanghai Middle Longhua subway station at exits 1 and 2 of the station (lines 7 and 12). significant works of Antonio López and several Spanish realist painters of his and subsequent generations. These artists are: Miguel Ángel Argüello, Amalia Avia, Francisco López, José María Mezquita, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla and Julio Vaquero. The exhibition "Antonio López and the masters of Spanish realism" is co-organized by the Cervantes Institute, the Spanish Embassy in the PR. China and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, with the collaboration of Turespaña, the advice of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid and the Antonio López and María Moreno Studio and the support of the Shanghai Metro and the Friendship Association. For more information visit the following link by clicking here. MORE INFO CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AND SPANISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING. EXHIBITION AT QUAN SHANSHI ART CENTER, HANGZHOU, CHINA A group exhibition of contemporary Chinese and Spanish figurative artists has just opened at the Quan Shanshi Art Center in Hangzhou where it will remain until November 28. It includes several works by María Moreno (in the image on the left), as well as Antonio López and other important Spanish figurative artists. This exhibition will travel in December to the National Grand Theater of China, in Beijing, where it can be visited between December 5, 2023 and January 5, 2024. MORE INFO ARTISTS AND MODELS. STORIES OF PASSION, CREATION AND DESTRUCTION. EXHIBITION AT THE CANAL FOUNDATION A new exhibition by the Canal de Madrid Foundation explores the relationships between female and male artists, and their partners through their art. The exhibition is curated by Rosario Sarmiento. These relationships were fruitful in some cases, supporting their lives and creativity, and destructive in others. María Moreno's Antonio Tumbado is one of her largest paintings, which she created during the filming of Victor Erice's film El sol del membrillo, and which is now being exhibited for the first time. MORE INFO "MIMESIS|REPRESENTATIONAL ART 2023", EXHIBITION AT THE MEAM IN BARCELONA The MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona presents "Mimesis| Representational Art 2023", a group exhibition on the contemporary international figuration scene. One of the artists partaking in the show is María Moreno, represented by her picture House Entrance from 1980. The exhibition can be visited between April 21 and June 25, 2023. For more information, see the album on the works of María Moreno and Antonio López on the latter's website by clicking here ; visit the museum's website at this link . MORE INFO EXHIBITION "THE ERNESTO WUTHENOW COLLECTION" AT THE LEANDRO NAVARRO GALLERY These days, the Leandro Navarro gallery in Madrid is offering an exhibition on the collection of Ernesto Wuthenow, a German businessman who was a founding member of one of the first Spanish art galleries, the Juana Mordó Gallery. This collector bought the work of various contemporary Spanish artists, both abstract and realist, including María Moreno. Wuthenow helped Spanish artists from the Juana Mordó gallery to present their work in several exhibitions in Germany. From November 10, 2022, to January 5, 2023. MORE INFO EXHIBITION "INFINITE REALITY" AT THE GOYA MUSEUM IN ZARAGOZA From June 22 to September 18, 2022, the Goya Museum in Zaragoza hosts the collective exhibition "Infinite reality". It is devoted to various figurative artists who developed their careers in the second half of the 20th and the 21st centuries. In this selection are included some paintings by María Moreno, as well as works by Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, Julio López, Esperanza Parada, Carmen Laffón, Amalia Avia, Cristóbal Toral and José Hernández. MORE INFO EXHIBITION "ANTONIO LÓPEZ" IN BANCAJA FOUNDATION, VALENCIA From September 24, 2020 to January 24, 2021, a very selected selection of some of the most important works painted by María Moreno during her career will be seen at this show. They are in a room dedicated exclusively to his work within the retrospective exhibition "Antonio López" at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia. Exquisite drawings accompany the paintings from different periods of Maria's career. MORE INFO EXPOSICIÓN SOBRE MUJERES ARTISTAS EN CAJACANARIAS From January 28 to March 28, you will be able to enjoy the work of a selection of important international female artists who have lived and worked between the last two centuries. Covering all artistic disciplines, the list of selected artists includes Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Paula Rego, Helena Almeida, Rebecca Horn, Nan Goldin, and even María Moreno, among others. The sample is in the CajaCanarias Cultural Space in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (San Clemente, 22). MORE INFO EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES IN NEW YORK From July 25 to September 3, 2019, the traveling exhibition The poetics between abstraction and figuration can be seen at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in New York. Spanish art in the 50s and 60s. Among the thirty-five works of some of the most representative artists of Madrid's figuration and abstraction of the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, which can be seen in this exhibition, there are two by María Moreno: Trinidad Vicente and Camera with bed and bike. MORE INFO EXHIBITION SEDUCIDOS POR LA REALIDAD The traveling exhibition, Seduced by reality, arrives at the Las Claras Cultural Center in Murcia; where it will be from May 17 to July 7. Varying some of the works included in its selection, it showcases the work of several important figurative artists for the development of realism and figurative art in the last fifty years. Among them, María Moreno, is present with some works of her production of recent years. MORE INFO EXHIBITION "ANTONIO LÓPEZ", MONASTERIO DE SANTO DOMINGO DE SILOS From April 26 to October 31, 2019, Antonio López's monographic exhibition is displayed in the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, around the spirituality and transcendence that can be found in some of his works on flowers and children. In addition, three works by María Moreno are displayed, cennected with this sensitivity and light as its driver. The exhibition is the culmination of "Angeli" project of Las Edades del Hombre, which highlights this spiritual value. Currently exhibited in Lerma in three locations, until November of this year. MORE INFO GROUP SHOW AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES IN LISBOA From February 19 to April 19, 2019, you can visit the travelling exhibition Poetics between abstraction and figurative art. Spanish art in the 50s and 60s at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Lisbon. Among the thirty-five works of some of the most representative artists of figurative art and abstraction of the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, which make up this exhibition, there are two by María Moreno: Trinidad Vicente and Camara with bed and bicycle MORE INFO EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES IN ROME On 26 September 2018 a new venue of the exhibition's The poetics of abstraction and figurative art will be opened at the Cervantes Institute in Rome, located in the Piazza Navona. This exhibition began at the Cervantes Institute in Prague in November 2017. Thirty-five works by some of the most representative artists of the figurative art and abstraction practiced in Madrid in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century can be seen in this exhibition. MORE INFO A LA MESA. EL BODEGÓN EN EL ARTE. GROUP SHOW AT SALA LAS CLARAS, MURCIA From October 4 to November 25, 2018 you can enjoy the exhibition Time to it! Still life in art, shown at the venue Las Claras in Murcia. The show is composed around still life and food, including works by artists spanning the twentieth century and contemporary, among which there are some pieces by Maria Moreno. MORE INFO GROUP SHOW "SEDUCIDOS POR LA REALIDAD", DA2, SALAMANCA Between September 20, 2018 and January 6, 2019 will be shown in the DA2 Salamanca, the exhibition Seduced by reality,which includes works by some and some of the most important figurative artists of the second half of the twentieth century in Spain, several of which are framed in the so-called "Realistas de Madrid". Included are drawings, sculptures and paintings by Antonio López, Julio and Francisco López, Esperanza Parada, Amalia Avia, Carmen Laffón, Isabel Quintanilla, Cristobal Toral and María Moreno. MORE INFO EXHIBITION AT THE INST. CERVANTES IN PRAGUE, 10/11/2017- 10/02/2018 The exhibition The poetics of abstraction and figurative art was inaugurated at the Cervantes Institute in Prague, which consists of 35 works by some of the most representative artists of Madrid's figurative art and abstraction of the fifties and sixties of the 20th century. Works by members of the El Paso group can be contemplated, among whom were Antonio Saura, Luis Feito, Martín Chirino or Rafael Canogar among others; but also paintings by other abstract and figurative artists such as Lucio Muñoz, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno or Antonio López. These last ones although they were not part of any artistic group, maintained ties of friendship and artistic connection, being grouped later by the critic. MORE INFO REALIDAD INTERPRETADA, ART SHOW AT CEART, FUENLABRADA On September 21, 2017, "Interpreted Reality" was inaugurated at the Tomás y Valiente Arts Center in Fuenlabrada. This was an exhibition that featured works by the top representatives of the New Spanish Figurative Art, including a selection of works by Antonio López and María Moreno. The show finished on November 5. MORE INFO Exhibitions List EXHIBITIONS OF MARÍA MORENO Solo Exhibitions: 1966 María Moreno . Galería Edurne, Madrid, 23 April–7 May. 1973 María Moreno. Ölbilder Zeichnungen . Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt. 1990 María Moreno. Peintures et dessins. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris. Group Shows: 1962 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Palacio del Retiro, Madrid. 1963 Exposición Concurso Nacional . Badajoz. Concurso Nacional de Castellón . Joven Figuración en España . Organized by Madrid Atheneum in the Ancient Hospital of Santa Cruz, Barcelona. 1964 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes . Palacio del Retiro, Madrid. 1965 Exposición Concursos Nacionales . Madrid. 1966 Exposición Colectiva . Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid. 1968 25 pintoras actuales. Galería El Bosco, Madrid, 11–29 January. 1969 Exposición Concursos Nacionales 1969. Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid. 1970 Magischer Realismus in Spanien heute. Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt; Galerie Buchholz, Munich, September–October; Galerie Buchholz, Munich, November–December. 1971 Exposición Colectiva. Librería Machado, Madrid. 1972 Pintura femenina española. Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, Madrid. Art’72. Kunstmesse, Basilea. 1973 Art 4 ’73. Basel Internationale Kunstmesse, Basilea, Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, June. Contemporary Spanish Realists. Marlborough Fine Art, London, September–October. 1974 Ars 74 . Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki. Drawings by Ten Contemporary Spanish Artists. Marlborough Gallery, New York. Mujeres ante el Arte. Galería Iolas-Velasco, Madrid. El realismo hoy. Galería Val i 30, Valencia. 1975 Spanische Realisten. Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, October–November. Amalia Avia, Julio L. Hernández, Carmen Laffón, Francisco López, Antonio López García, Antonio López Torres, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla . Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Seville, April–May. Realismus + Realität. Institut Mathildenhöhe, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt. La Mujer en la Cultura Actual. Palacio de Fuensalida, Toledo. Exposición inaugural. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Toledo, Casa de las Cadenas, Toledo. 1976 Pintores manchegos. Banco de Santander, Ciudad Real. Fünf Spanische Realisten . Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Frankfurt. Einblicke–Ausblicke. Fensterbilder von der Romentik bis heute. Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. 1977 Realität, Hiperrealität, Irrealität. Documenta 6, Kassel. Spanische Realisten. María Moreno, Antonio López Garcia, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López. Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg. 1978 10 Kunst-und Antiquitäten-Messe Hannover. Galerie und Orangerie, Hannover-Herrenhausen, April. Als guter Realist muss ich alles erfinden: internationaler Realismus heute. Kunstverein and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 4 Nov. 1978-7 January 1979; Badischer Kunstverein de Karlsruhe, 21 January-4 March, 1979. 1979 Fiac 79 . Galerie Negru, Paris. 1980 Spanische Realisten. María Moreno, Antonio López Garcia, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López. Kunstverein Braunschweig Haus Salve Hospes. Braunschweig, Germany. 1981 Realismo en España . Aula de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Complutense, Madrid. El dibuix. Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca. 1982 I pittori spagnoli della realtà. Centro d’Arte Montebello, Milan. Arco’82. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. 1983 Arco’83. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. Realidades . Institución Cultural El Brocense, Diputación Provincial, Cáceres, May. El dibujo una realidad. Galería Heller, Madrid, July–September. 1984 Mujeres en el Arte Español (1900-1984). Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Ayto. de Madrid, Madrid. Realistes à Madrid. Saló del Tinell, Departament de Cultura de Catalunya, Barcelona, February. Arte Español en el Congreso. Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid. Resurrección de la naturaleza muerta . Galería Heller, Madrid. Europaïsche Ansichten . Batig, Hamburgo, 20 September -23 November. 1985 Figuras y figuraciones . Galería Juan Gris, Madrid. 1986 7 Spanish Realists . Claude Bernard Gallery, New York, May–June. 1987 Naturalezas Españolas (1940-1987). Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, November 1987–January 1988. 1988 Realismo y Figuración . Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada, June–July. 1990 El espacio privado. Cinco siglos en veinte palabras. Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, Sala Julio González, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid. 1991 Realismo español. Dos generaciones . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. Realismos, Arte Contemporáneo Español. Asahi Shimbun (Org.), Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo. Roaming exhibition: Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama. Visiones de Madrid. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, May–June. Homenaje a Ortega. Galería de arte Villanueva, Madrid, April–May. 1992 Otra realidad, compañeros en Madrid. Fundación Caja Madrid (January–February). Roaming Exhibition: Fund. M. Botín, Santander (July–August); Centro de Exp. y Congresos, Zaragoza (September–October). Contemporary Spanish Artists . Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, November–December. Madrid pintado. Museo Municipal, Madrid. Artistas en Madrid. Pabellón de la Comunidad de Madrid, Expo’92, Seville. Jardín de vidrio. Bodegones y flores en realidad. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, December 1992–January 1993. APROARTE . Galería Leandro Navarro, Barcelona. 1994 Realismos. Centro Cultural Conde Duque, City Council of Madrid. Arte en dos. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, December 1994–January 1995. Antonio López García. Proceso de un trabajo. Fundación FOCUS, Seville, November 1994–January 1995. Exposición Homenaje a López Torres . Galería Arteta, Madrid. 1995 Artistas de la Galería Malborough. Kiosko Alfonso, La Coruña. Realismo español entre dos milenios. Sala de la Pasión, Valladolid (May–June). Roaming Exhibition: Sala de Armas, Ciudadela, Pamplona (June–July); Fundación Caja Rioja, Logroño (September—October); Palacio Almudí, Murcia; Casal Sollería, Palma de Mallorca (February–March 1996). 1996 Desde la Realidad / Dalla Realtà – Quatro Artisti Spagnoli Contemporanei. Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno, Francisco López. Accademia Spagnola di Storia, Archeologia e Belle Arti, Rome. Sensibilidades . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, February–April. Contemporary Spanish Realists. Marlborough Fine Art, London, June–August. Autour de la reálité: réalismes espagnols. Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris. 25 años . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, October–December. 1997 El realismo en sus raíces. Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo. Nuevo Realismo . Artis Galería, Salamanca, 6-31 March. 1998 Paisajes de un siglo. Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, Vitoria. 1999 Interiores. Visiones íntimas de un siglo. Centro Cultural Caixavigo, Vigo. Roaming Exhibition: La Coruña, Lugo, Ourense. Mirar Madrid . Casa de Vacas, City Council of Madrid, Madrid. 2000 Rosas para el 2000 . Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid. 2002 Nuovo Realismo Spagnolo . Galleria Narieschi, Milan. Luz de la mirada . Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, 2002–2003. 2003 Arte axuda Galicia. Fundación Fexdega, Vilagarcía de Arousa. Roaming Exhibition: Vigo, Ourense, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra. 2004 Visiones de la realidad. Caja Vital Kutxa, Vitoria. 2005 Pinceladas de Realidad. Amalia Avia, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla . Museo de Belas Artes da Coruña, Xunta de Galicia, La Coruña. 2006 Realidad, arte spagnola della realtà. Galleria Civica di Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza, Largo Pignatari, 2006–2007. Realidades de la realidad. Ajuntament de Valencia and Caja Castilla La Mancha, Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia. 2007 Im licht der wirklichkeit, Zeitgenössischer realismus in Spanien. Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen. 2008 Cincuenta años después. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, 2008–2009. La feminidad en el arte . Fundación Caja Castellón-Bancaja, Sala Bancaja San Miguel. Creadoras del Siglo XX. Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, June–August. Realidades de la realidad. Caja de Extremadura Obra Social, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Badajoz; Convento de San Francisco, Plasencia; Palacio de Mayoralgo, Cáceres, 2008–2009. 2009 Realidades de la realidad. Caja Duero, Salamanca. 2011 Realidades de la realidad . Fundación Caja Castellón-Bancaja, Sala Bancaja San Miguel, Castellón. 2014 Visiones de la realidad. CajaCanarias Fundación, Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Selección Alumnos Talleres Cátedra Francisco de Goya y sus maestros . Fundación Caja de Ávila, Palacio Los Serrano. De Picasso a Barceló . Galería CCPUCP, Lima, Perú, 2014–2015. 2015 Ellas. Creadoras de los siglos XX y XXI. CAC, Vélez-Málaga, March–April. Gorputz Eta Arima XX. Eta XXI. Mendeetako emakume artistak / En cuerpo y alma. Mujeres artistas de los siglos XX y XXI . Sala Jubo-Kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastián, 19 June–27 September. 2016 Realistas de Madrid. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 9 February–22 May. Realismo en España 50 años . Sala Baluarte, Centro Cultural Adolfo Suárez, 8 April–16 June. A la mesa. Bodegones en el arte. Museo de Santa Cruz de Toledo. 4 May–4 September. 30 Aniversario. Galería Ansorena, Madrid, 15 September–28 October. Impresiones sobre Noches en los jardines de España . Fundación Caja Rural Granada, Sala Zaida, Granada, 10 November–10 December. 2017 Realistas . Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 19 January-26 March. Bodegones en el arte . Sala Fundación Vital, Vitoria, 1 June-17 September. La apariencia de lo real. Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga, 6 April-10 September. Realidad interpretada. Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, 21 September-5 November. La poética de la abstracción y la figuración . Instituto Cervantes, Praga, 9 November 2017-10 February 2018 2018 La poética de la abstracción y la figuración. Rossiyskaya Academia Khudozhestv, Moscow, 30 March-20 August. Seducidos por la realidad . DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, 20 September 2018-6 January 2019. La poética de la abstracción y la figuración. Instituto Cervantes, Roma, 26 September-12 January 2019. Bodegones en el arte. Engaño y primor en la pintura . Sala Las Claras, Murcia, 4 October-25 November. 2019 La poética entre abstracción y figuración . Arte español en los años 50 y 60. Instituto Cervantes, Lisbon, 19 February-19 April. Seducidos por la realidad. Centro Cultural Las Claras, Murcia, 17 May-7 July. La poética entre abstracción y figuración. Arte español en los años 50 y 60. Instituto Cervantes, New York, 25 July-3 September. 2020 Transformaciones. Mujeres artistas entre dos siglos. Fundación CajaCanarias, Tenerife, 28 January-28 March. Antonio López. Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, 24 September 2020-24 January 2021, extended until February 28, 2021. 2022 Infinita realidad. Museo Goya, Zaragoza, 21 June-18 September. La Colección Ernesto Wuthenow. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid, 10 November 2022-5 January 2023. 2023 Infancia. Antonio López. ARCO-El Corte Inglés, El Corte Inglés’ Preciados Street Building (Shop Window) & Stand of El Corte Inglés at ARCO 2023 art fair, Madrid, 15-26 February. Antonio López. Modelo Old Prison, Barcelona, organized by the Gran Teatro Liceu de Barcelona, 23 March-10 April. Mimesis | Representational Art 2023. MEAM (Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno), Barcelona, 21 April-25 June. Artistas y modelos. Historias de pasión, creación y destrucción. Fundación Canal, Madrid, 11 October 2023-5 January 2024. Pintura Figurativa Contemporánea China y Española . Quan Shanshi Art Centre, Hangzhou, China, 8-28 November 2023; National Grand Theatre, Beijing, China, 5 December 2023-5 January 2024. El realismo íntimo de Isabel Quintanilla . Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. 27 February-2 June 2024. Más allá del realismo: arte figurativo de China y España. Palacio Real. Madrid, 13 April-26 May 2024. Infinita realidad. Sala de exposiciones Pedro Torrecilla, Burgos, 12 September-10 November. [September, 2024] Exhibitions List

. Exhibition at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia. Photo Report The photographic report commissioned by the Studio of María Moreno and Antonio López to the UMFotografía studio, shows the rooms of the retrospective exhibition "Antonio López" that took place at the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia between September 24, 2020 and February 28, 2021. The exhibition dedicated two rooms to show a careful selection of work by María Moreno in which her career was traversed through different periods, as well as themes. It was the first time that this couple of artists exhibited jointly without the work of other creators.

Access by clicking here to the website of RTVE to watch La luz de Antonio , the documentary devoted to María Moreno and her work by the Spanish TV program Crónicas in June 2015.

Tribute to María Moreno in the Art Gallery Against Oblivion in Boadilla de Rioseco

Chrono-biography Bio Contact Chronobiography Cronology Maria Moreno This video narrates in images the personal and artistic life of María Moreno. María Moreno Play Video Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tumblr Copy Link Link Copied Chrono-biography Born in Madrid in 1933 Born in Madrid in 1933 Began her Fine Art studies in 1954 Although she spent some years in Valencia during her childhood, coinciding with the Civil War, which brought her in touch with a world of light and joy, thanks to hercontact with nature and the sea that caused an indelible mark on her. During her teens she was an avid reader and frequented museums in the capital. After spending some time at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, she passed the entrance exam to the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where she studied painting. Fine Art Studies 1957 In the summer of 1957, coinciding with her training, María travels to Paris to satisfy her artistic curiosity, visiting museums and seeing paintings. It will be precisely where she will make her self-portrait. During the years 1958 and 1960 she taught drawing classes 1959 At the beginning of her career, she dedicates herself to teaching, before even concluding her studies in Fine Arts, teaching drawing classes. Task that began in the Institute Filial of Isabel the Catholic of Madrid, where taught between 1958 and 1960. In the environment of the San Fernando School she gets to know or deepens the friendship with several students of Fine Arts who later became artists with important careers: Isabel Quintanilla, Esperanza Parada, Julio López, Francisco López, Lucio Muñoz, Enrique Gran, Joaquín Ramo and Antonio López. She will finish her studies in 1959. The end of the Studies Marries the artist Antonio López 1961 With him she will have two daughters, María and Carmen. They will be partners of life and trade, assuming great mutual support in the development of their careers. 1966 Her first solo exhibition took place at the Edurne Gallery It shows a set of intimate works, in which she represents spaces of her environment, which is dominated by gloomy and collected interiors. First Solo Exhibition Returned to teaching 1966-69 Between 1966 and 1969, she returned to teach at two institutions of Alcala de Henares: the National Institute for Media Education and Labor University. She combined this work with her own artistic production. The influence of Antonio López Torres The painter Antonio López Torres (1902-1987), uncle of her husband, had a great impact on the work of María Moreno; both in her openness to light and in the change of her palette to warmer and clearer colors. With him they had continued contact since the sixties, both her husband and her, as well as the marriage of artists formed by Isabel Quintanilla and Francisco López. In the sixties disclosed her work at the national level Con Antonio López Torres ©Foto Moses During the sixties, when art galleries proliferate in Spain, it is when she begins to exhibit her work, which she previously kept for herself. In 1966 she showed her work in two Madrid venues: Juana Mordó and Edurne galleries, where she had her already mentioned first solo exhibition. 70s Her work is filled with light In 1973 she exhibited individually for the second time 1973 Her work was exhibited and sold during the seventies in several European countries, mainly in Germany, but also in France, the United Kingdom and Finland; as well as in the United States. María exhibited alone again, but this time outside Spain, in Frankfurt, when she was invited by the gallery owner Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, who had already exhibited the realists and thanks to the interest that the work and criticism had aroused among the German public and critics. of the so-called Realistas de Madrid. María Moreno en los lugares que le inspiraron Participate in numerous group exhibitions in Spain since the 80s 1980 Her works are filled with light Since the early eighties, her work has been shown in several collective exhibitions, several of which dealt with realist art and some of the art made by women, such as Women in Spanish Art (1900-1984), organized at the Center Cultural Count Duke of Madrid. Executive producer of The Quince Tree Sun 1990-92 María is in charge of the executive production of Víctor Erice's film, El sol del membrillo, which portrays the creative process of Antonio López and in which María Moreno herself appears as one of the main characters. This film will win the prizes of the jury and critic of the Festival of Cannes of 1992, as well as other distinctions of several international festivals like the one of Chicago and the one of Uruguay. From the late seventies her palette begins to clear and open to the light, gaining great prominence in her works. 1990 She presents her work in an individual exhibition at the Claude Bernard Gallery The 90s represent her consolidation as an artist, thanks to her taking part in numerous group shows and, especially, for her solo show at the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris, which is committed to her work and thus expands its international support. Otra realidad, Compañeros en Madrid exhibition, 1992 Among the exhibitions of which she took part, it highlights the travelling show Otra realidad, Compañeros en Madrid, which started in January 1992 at the Caja Madrid Foundation in the capital; since it served to place the group of figurative and abstract artists who met at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in the fifties and who were joined by bonds of friendship. This group was composed of Isabel Quintanilla, Julio and Francisco López Hernández, Esperanza Parada, Enrique Gran, Lucio Muñoz, Joaquín Ramo, Antonio López and María Moreno. 90s During that decade she participated in important exhibitions both nationally and internationally that will give greater visibility to the realistic figurative art she practiced together with other friends: Otra Realidad, Compañeros en Madrid, Fundación Caja Madrid (1992); Contemporary Spanish Artists, Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo (1992); From the Reality / Dalla Realtà - Quatro Artisti Spagnoli Contemporanei. Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno, Francisco López, Accademia Spagnola di Storia, Archeologia e Belle Arti, Rome (1996); Contemporary Spanish Realists, Marlborough Fine Art, London (1996); Autour de la réalité: réalismes espagnols, Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris (1996). 2000s She continues to participate in collective exhibitions, having special relevance those that take place from 2005 and that highlight her work together with that of her realistic companions, such as Pinceladas de Realidad. Amalia Avia, María Moreno, Isabel Quintanilla (2005), Museum of Fine Arts of La Coruña. As well as others that delved into the group of realists in all its extension as Realidad, arte spagnola della realtà , Galleria Civica di Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza (2006-2007). Teaches workshops She takes up teaching and teaches some courses, such as the "Francisco de Goya Chair" at the Los Serrano Palace in Ávila. 2016 Realistas de Madrid was inaugurated in 2016, a show organized by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid that has revived the interest in the work of the group of friends and colleagues who since the fifties of the last century have dedicated themselves to figurative art: Esperanza Parada , Amalia Avia, Julio and Francisco López, Isabel Quintanilla, María Moreno and Antonio López. 2020 She died on 17 February 2020 in Madrid at age 86. On the occasion of what would have been his 87th birthday, this video was made in his memory, as a small tribute. Bio BIO María Moreno (Madrid,1933-2020) From a young age, she felt a strong sense of vocation for the arts and an interest in literature and music, which provided her with a rich inner world. She trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, which she entered in 1954 to study Fine Arts, specializing in painting. This period marked her for life, not only professionally but also personally. There she met her friends and fellow artists Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Amalia Avia, Julio and Francisco Hernandez López and Lucio Muñoz (who soon shifted from figuration to abstraction, although he never abandoned the bond with the group). The work of these artists has been labelled with different names: Madrilenian realism, Madrilenian figuration, or Realists artists of Madrid, among others. María Moreno married Antonio López in 1961 and began a long creative career. Although both have sometimes felt an interest in the same motifs, which they have approached from closeness and observation of reality, working from nature, each of them has developed their work individually, achieving their own style and vision. Since the seventies of the last century, the work of María Moreno began to be exhibited and became part of several international collections. The exhibitions held since in Germany and the UK dedicated to the group of artists who devoted themselves to the New Figuration in Madrid at the time had a great impact. Her solo exhibitions have been less numerous but have had a major impact on the knowledge of her work by national and international collectors. In 1973 she exhibited at the gallery of Herbert Meyer-Ellinger in Frankfurt, who also organized several relevant shows dedicated to the Spanish realism practiced by María and some of her colleagues. In 1990, the Parisian gallery owner Claude Bernard convinced the painter to exhibit in his gallery almost all the paintings and drawings made during those years; achieving a brilliant exhibition with which it obtained an important recognition. In recent years, her work has been part of several group shows, being especially significant the one held in 1992 at the Royal Academy of Madrid, Otra realidad. Compañeros en Madrid (Another Reality. Partners in Madrid), as well as the recent Realistas de Madrid (Realists of Madrid) held at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (February-May 2016). The first was key in the understanding of the Madrilenian figuration that emerged in the fifties within the context of the art that was done by other contemporaries and colleagues; while the latter has offered the opportunity to put the work of these artists into perspective after having developed lengthy careers. The subjects of her works, which are always intimately linked to her and her living space, encompass landscapes, in which Madrid has a prominent place, but also of La Mancha; portraits of people from her environment from her first years; interiors, which have been present since the beginning of her career; a few still lifes; gardens and flowers, for which she developed a special predilection from the nineties. In addition to numerous private collections, her work is held by the following public collections: Fundació Sorigué, Lérida; Artium, Vitoria; Museum of Contemporary Art of Toledo; Iberdrola Collection, Bilbao; Colección BBVA, Madrid; Kupferstichkabinett, Kunsthalle, Hamburg. She died on February 17, 2020 in Madrid at age 86. BHC Contact CONTACT Email : estudioantoniolopez@gmail.com NOTICE : This is an email of the studio team for professional purposes, only for technical and work issues.