Francisco Ribera Gomez Madrid/ 1907 -1990

Francisco Ribera Gomez Madrid/ 1907 -1990
Francisco Ribera Gomez Madrid, 1907 - Malaga, 1990 It began in the workshop of his father, Jose Ribera Blázquez, who was influenced by romantic and Madrazo, Rosales or Esquivel, having studied at the Academy of San Fernando with teachers from the likes of Moreno Carbonero, Julio Romero de Torres and Matthew Inurria. He completed his training after two years of scholarships Paular and El Granada. His first participation in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid has won awards in 1928 and 1930. In the decade of the 30 posters he produced his brilliant, with whom he won the poster contest Masked Ball Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1931, and chosen to illustrate the International Exposition in Barcelona, 1933 . That same year, he moved to Barcelona as artistic director of the company Walter Thompson advertising. After the civil war continued their success at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (1941, 1948 and 1950), and began his teaching career, since 1945 the chair of "Drawing natural rest" of the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​where he was director from 1964 to 1972, to succeed Frederic Mares. his prolific career has a special chapter in its relationship with UEE, as the painter Ribera Gómez more presence in the collection the Company up to thirteen times his oil paintings illustrated the new calendar year in the period 1947 to 1977. They are a clear indication of the rest of their production, which combines a cordial way of romantic influence of his early training with the Mediterranean light. A path through the extensive legacy of portraits, compositions, nudes and decorative and religious representations and posters already mentioned and illustrations panels. Official recognition came in 1946 when he was appointed honorary member of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors. A year later, he received the same honor by the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid after being awarded the prize of the Ministry of National Education in the Salon d'Automne. Academic San Fernando since 1967, he was also of the Royal Academy of Seville St. Elizabeth of Hungary since 1971. Outside Spain, his work has been seen in several solo exhibitions in Cuba (1956 and 1958) and Brussels (1964), in which city International Exhibition of 1965, "The Arts in Europe" won the gold medal "Initiatives Union of the City of Brussels." international Award received as diploma and a gold medal for "Arts, Sciences, Lettres" in Paris in 1968, or the Knight of "The Order of the Italian Republic "in 1973. always very close to the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, featured regularly in the Salon de Madrid and Barcelona Cano Augusta Galleries, Art Gallery and Argo