Studying on one of the Artists picked week 2/16

Antonio Lopez Garcia's works are commonly about everyday life situations.  The kitchen sink, the interior of his new fridge, a figure in the bathtub, fruit hanging on the tree in his yard.  I believe though that the work is about seeing into the subject on a very profound level.  These paintings he often takes as much time possible to work on or re-work till they are either finished( for him this might take years, one such painting painted of the city of Madrid for the Spanish Royal Family he painted for over 18 years before he was prompted that he better finish...).  He even declares himself in an interview at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpDp77pSL8 ,
that sometimes his painting are left unfinished because he needs to sell them and has a buyer, or the subject matter is gone, exe.  A film done about him called Dream of Light or El Sol De Membrillo, Directed by Victor Erice.  In this film he paints and draws from a quince tree in his year and we get to see how he will constantly change the work according to the light that day, the state of the fruit( blossoms, to fruit, to falling fruit, to rotting fruit to no more fruit..... )  constantly changing and adjusting the work to represent the subject matter.  It is to this constant attention and effort that he seems to discover some moment of inner awe about the subject itself.  I also found writing by Benjamin Frazor in a book called Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting and believe that some of the ideas spoken of in the book is how aren't we all shaped by our experiences and time and that means Garcia's time being The Spanish Civil War and the rein of Fancoismo for most of his early life till the maybe his mid thirties.  I think there is something overwhelming about the beauty of the everyday and seemingly mundane a kind of savoring of the everyday things in ones reality and life experience when you are in a situation where you realize how precious everything is.  It almost heightens the real in the realism of the work.