Ulpiano Checa
Ulpiano Checa (✦April 3, 1860 – †January 5, 1916) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer, and illustrator, known in the art world as Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz. He used both impressionistic and academic techniques and painted mainly historical subjects.
Biography
He was born in Colmenar de Oreja, Spain, and exhibited a talent for art when he was a young child. At thirteen, he met Don Jose Ballester, the husband of a neighbor in Colmenar who owned the Cafe de la Concepción in Madrid. This event changed the course of his life. After consultation with Luis Taveras, a recognized artist in Madrid, Ballester decided to bring Ulpiano to the capital with his family to begin his art studies.
In 1873, he entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, followed by the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he would paint Invasion of the Barbarians (since lost in a fire) which won the gold medal National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1887.
Work
Ulpiano Checa's work is characterized by the use of color and light; his drawing technique is offset by and goes unnoticed as a result of the dynamism typical of his work. He was an eclectic artist whose work incorporated aspects of Impressionism, academic art, and luminism without emphasizing any of them. He painted galloping Huns, barbarians, Pompeii, charioteers, the French, Arabs, and kings.
- Ulpiano Checa gallery
The Abduction
Abduction of Persephone
Entre dos Oasis
Persephone
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