Fashion illustrator - Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez was born in Utuado,Puerto Rico on February 11th, 1943. Antonio Lopez died in 1987, aged 44, but made an indelible mark on the fashion landscape via his distinctive illustrations for fashion houses and publications.

When he was seven years old, he moved to New York with his family. In the early 1960s, Antonio Lopez began to free-lance for fashion magazines. He was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue , Harper's Bazaar , Elle , Interview and The New York Times and the New York Times called him a "major fashion illustrator." Widely recognized during this period as the world's most influential fashion illustrator, Antonio's work took on a deeper, he pursued various art forms and endeavors. He worked in a variety of materials, including pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor and Polaroid film, richly detailed, with a vivid palette, and heroic proportions and poses. By the early 1970s, His constantly changing, flamboyant style came to dominate

 fashion illustration by injecting energy into a discipline that had been stagnant since the 1950s. A new, more animated, painting style emerged.

From my point of view, he tried to be creative with each fashion illustration. Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He captured the pulse of style from the 60s to the 80s, and is still revered as the most inspiring illustrator by today's practitioners. He always chooses exaggerated colors, whose bright color contrast and beautiful image brought different visual impacts to people. The use of colorful, bold images can enrich the visual impact of the design by providing a stark contrast to the muted, solid color of the minimalist design elements. I think people like sensational and visual impact, that is why people called Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He could seize it!