Background
Feito was born in Madrid, Spain, on October 31, 1929.
Calle de Alcalá, 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Calle de Alcalá, 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Feito was born in Madrid, Spain, on October 31, 1929.
Luis Feito began his formal training at the Escuela superior de bellas artes de San Fernando (now Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando), Madrid, in 1950. Two years later he moved to Paris in order to study the avant-garde movements. While in Paris Feito became influenced by automatism and material painting.
In the year 1956 Feito went to Paris, receiving a scholarship from both the Spanish and French government. In Paris the artist got acquainted with the Spanish avant-garde artists who were active in France at that time. Luis Feito, Antonio Saura, Manuel Rivera, Rafael Canogar and Manolo Millares became the founding members of "El Paso". It was an artist group of Spanish Art Informel, which paid special attention to an anti-academic, socially and morally responsible, innovative art in Spain.
In early abstract works from the 1950s, Feito's work can be characterized by a melancholy, colorless palette, contrasting black, gray, white, and ocher. Later he added red into his compositions as a counterpoint, then he used it as the primary color in a number of compositions. At the end of the decade, Luis Feito also started to integret materials like sand into his artworks.
Luis Feito lived and worked in Paris for a long period of time. He moved to Montreal in 1981 and in 1983 to New York where the painter stayed until the early 1990s. At around that time Feito began to create his sculptures. Among his preferred materials were bronze, wood and steel.
In the year 1991 Luis Feito returned to Madrid. In the second half of the 1990s he mainly depicted geometrical shapes. His early notable international group exhibitions included the Venice Biennale (1956, 1958, 1960, 1968); Sao Paulo Biennial (1957, 1963); Paris Biennial (1959); Guggenheim Museum (1960); Tate Gallery, London (1962), etc. Among his retrospectives should be mentioned exhibitions at the Galerie Arnaud, Paris (1961); Hamburg Museum, West Germany (1964); and Museo espanol de arte contemporáneo (now Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofía), Madrid (1998). Feito now lives and works in Madrid.
Luis Feito López is counted as one of the most important and outstanding artists of gestural abstraction in Spain. Many of his works can be found in private collections and in major museums worldwide, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid or the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
Luis Feito was a recipient of a number of awards. In 1955 he was awarded I. Mediterranean Art Biennale Alexandria, and the following year II. Mediterranean Art Biennial, Cairo / Athens. He received UMAM Prize of the 1st Biennial of Paris. Feito was named at first Officer (1985) and then Knight Commander (1993) of the Ordre des arts et letters (Order of Arts and Letters) of France. He received the international grand prize from the Asociación Espanola de Críticos de Arte (AECA) at the art fair Arco, Madrid (2002).
Composition I
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210-B
Painting 488
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Untitled (Red, black, pink and blue)
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Untitled (Red, orange and pink)
Untitled (Purple circle)
Painting 847
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Untitled nr 2316
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Untitled (Purple and Red)
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Composition
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Número 460-A
1418
Painting 139
597
Sin título (Abstracción en roso y negro)
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471
Bas
Número 148
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Painting 918
165
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N-300
Composition
Untitled (Red, green, yellow and blue)
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Abstracto en grises y azules
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Untitled (Purple, pink and blue)
Untitled (Orange, red and purple)
Número 363
