The Sevillian painter and sculptor
Carmen Laffón
died this Sunday at the age of 87, according to Europa Press.
National Prize of Plastic Arts in 1982, Favorite Daughter of Andalusia in 2013 and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X el Sabio in 2017, the career of this Andalusian artist already begins in a different way from the rest.
Her parents, who had met at the Madrid Student Residence, decided that their daughter would not go to school like other children but would be educated in her own home.
Thus at the age of 12 he began in the world of painting at the hands of Manuel González Santos, a friend of the family and his father's former drawing teacher.
It will be thanks to his recommendation that he will enter the School of Fine Arts in Seville, at age 15 where he will stay for three more.
At 18, Laffón moved to Madrid, in whose School of Fine Arts he finished his career
.
In that same year, 1954, she made her end of studies trip to Paris, where she was especially impressed by the work of Marc Chagall and only a year later she went to Rome with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education to continue her training.
Upon his return to Seville in 1956, he continued painting in the family summer house in La Jara, in front of the Coto de Doñana, which would end up being the central place of his artistic activity and his refuge. These landscapes will be fundamental in his work, as the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, recalled this morning. "
In the landscapes of Andalusia there will always be the essence of Carmen Laffón.
My condolences and the embrace of all Andalusians to her family. An exceptional artist is leaving us, a unique talent that has marked Andalusian art. Rest in peace," he said. pointed out in a tweet.
In 1967, Laffón approached the world of teaching and, together with Teresa Duclós and Pepe Soto, created the El Taller School and in 1975 he joined the Natural Drawing Chair of the School of Fine Arts in Seville.
In 1998 she was appointed an academic at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.
On January 16, 2000, he gave the entrance speech entitled 'Vision of a landscape', where he addressed his relationship with Sanlúcar de Barrameda and the Doñana preserve.
One of her last great distinctions is that of being the Favorite Daughter of Andalusia since 2013.
She has also won the National Prize for Plastic Arts and the Gold Medal of Merit for Fine Arts
among other distinctions.
In 2017 the Government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
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