Pedro Cano

Name➼ Pedro Cano

DOB➼ 10 August, 1994

Place of Birth➼ Blanca, Murcia

Residence➼ Blanca and Roma

• His Early Life:

     His dad died when he was 10 years, and his brother gave him a box with colors, that gif was very important for him. Before this he knew that he was born to paint. He study in the Antonio Molina Gonzalez School in Blanca. In 1963 when he was nineteen years old he went to Madrid to do military service.

• His Adult Life:

In 1969 he obtained a scholarship for landscape painting for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, before leaving Rome he stayed for a time at the Rodriguez de Granada Foundation where he obtained a scholarship for painting in the Alhambra.

• In 1972 he marries an Italian girl and goes to live at 30km from Rome.

• In 1986 Cano went to live New York for 5 years in the East Village.

• In 1987, dies his mother, Pura.

• In 1988 he design a scene of Galileo Galilei by Bertolt Brecht, for the theater of Rome.

• In 1995 he returned to Murcia after having been in New York and Los Angeles to give watercolor classes at the School of Fine Arts and at universities in Italy, Germany, Greece and Spain.

He start painting in 1959, when he  meeting with the Valencian painter Amparo Benaches . All his life has been a painter but he has also worked in film and music. He like the still live painting and most of his paintings are still live but he has done other type of paintings, for example women´s or landscapes. His technique for paint is the watercolors and he has his own museum in Blanca, Murcia.

Flores en verde

Title: “Flores en Verde”

Artist: Pedro Cano

Location: Pedro Cano Museum

Type of artwork: Still Live Painting

Made of: Lithography

Description:

– Shapes: In the painting you only see the shapes of the flowers.

– Colours: The painting is not very colorful, the background is green and the color of the flowers is white.

– Textures:

Internal analysis:

Subject: The theme of the work are flowers

Personal opinion: It´s not my cup of tea because is very simple,  it´s too plain and boring you only see flowers and this is all.  I like more the colorfuls paintings like famous portraits. I´m not very keen on this types of still lives paintings.

The museum

Name: Pedro Cano Museum

Location: Blanca,Murcia

History:

In december 2008 the Pedro Cano foundation was built, in Blanca in the Ricote Valley.

The foundation aims to expose and disseminate the works of the painter, and also, it is the place of conferences, publications and exhibitions, in general of activities related in particular to painting and contemporary art, which surrounds the world of Pedro Cano.

Timetable:

The mondays and tuesdays is closed;the wednesday, thursday, friday is open to the 10:00 to 13:00 and to the 17:00 to 19:00;the saturday is open to the 11:00 to 14:00 and to the 17:00 to 19:00; the sunday is open to the 11:00 to 14:00.

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