Eduardo Arroyo Rodríguez (26 February 1937 – 14 October 2018) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He was also swift as an author and set designer.
Arroyo, who was born in Madrid, studied art in his house city, but left Spain in 1958 because of his basic contempt for Francoist Spain, came to terms taking into consideration Francisco Franco in his old age, Arroyo highly developed described him as a “whore” and even purposeless his Spanish citizenship in 1974 (which he got back two years later, a year after the death of the Caudillo). In Paris, he befriended members of the young person art scene, especially Gilles Aillaud, with whom he forward-thinking collaborated in creating stage sets, but plus the dated master, Joan Miró. In 1964, he made his breakthrough past his first important exhibition. Over 20 years of great critical carrying out and tall esteem upon the art present followed. In his obsolete age, the ideologically and creatively severe artist was as nimble as ever, even if it had seemed to have become somewhat quieter regarding his creations.
Stylistically, Arroyo’s mostly ironic, colorful works are at the crossroads amid the trends of nouvelle figuration or figuration narrative and pop art. A characteristic of his representations is the general absence of spatial sharpness and the flattening of perspective.
Arroyo as a consequence became known to a broad public through his many works as a set designer, as capably as partially by his costume designs. In this relation, he cooperated back 1969 especially next the director Klaus Michael Grüber, who encouraged him in this activity. Arroyo created sets for, among others, the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the Paris Opéra (in 1976, Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre), the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin and the Salzburger Festspiele (in 1991, Leoš Janáček’s Z mrtveho domu).
In 1982 he normal Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts.
Arroyo’s stage play, Bantam, premiered at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel (Residenztheater) in Munich with great success in 1986, with his friend, Grüber, as director and Ailland and Antonio Recalcati for sets and costumes.
Arroyo’s paintings are showcased at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid.
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