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Antonio Alonso Martinez (born 29 April 1963 in Portugal) - is a Spanish painter. For a decade he traveled throughout West Africa. Since the 80s, Martinez questions the credibility of contemporary thought. For 30 years, he questions the role of spiritual content's art in today's consumer society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=11 December 1990 )〕 Martinez uses a very personal method of alienating his sitters in order to express allusions, possible questions or even criticism raised against the depicted persons, or at least against our perceptions of those people. Martinez was one of the mainly responsible of the Portuguese visual art's ''Boom'' in the 80s but always denouncing the imposed castrations by the portuguese art market. This attitude turned him into an isolated case of the national artistic environment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=26 July 1984 )〕 Being born in Portugal to Spanish parents he opted for the Spanish nationality in 1978. He studied Fine Arts at the (Center for Art and Visual Communication ), Lisbon, Portugal. In 1984 was co-author of the Manifest of the Multi-instrumentalist Painting published in the Newspaper of Letters, Arts and Ideas on 26 June 1984. This manifest was accompanied by an exhibition at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon, creating controversy among the new artists and critics, because was a denunciation against the empty NeoAcademy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=26 July 1984 )〕 In January 2011 one of his work - ''Portrait of Kurt Cobain'' - reached the second higher value in the sale of Contemporary Art at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum. In September 2012 another portrait of Kurt Cobain by Martinez was sold at Christie's in London. In January 2013 in Warsaw one of his works - ''Diana'' - reached the highest value on auction at Forbes Millionaires Club. Antonio Alonso Martinez claims that ''"Art is not a project but yes an eternal adventure! Not everything that an artist makes are artworks. Trying to convince the world about the contrary is pathetic!"''. At 52 years old he says: ''"I still did not my first work. Up until now I've been learning. I have not yet started to live. So far, I have been preparing myself for life. Anyway, no one is happier than me. I am a privileged one because I have Love."''. Antonio Alonso Martinez is married to the portuguese singer songwriter Pilar Homem de Melo == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonio Alonso Martinez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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