De Puertas Adentro: Memorias (Pensamiento) - Primera edición

390pp with numerous black and color text outside and white photographs . About the author ::: Amalia Avia Peña ( Santa Cruz de la Zarza , Toledo , April 23, 1930 ) is a Spanish figurative painter ... Amalia Avia spent his childhood and early youth between Madrid and the people, marked by pain of the war. His career as a painter began in the 50s in the study of Eduardo Peña in Madrid. Meet the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, many of his friends and later co- generation Antonio López García , Julio Hernández López Francisco López Hernández , Isabel Quintanilla, Esperanza Parada , Carmen Laffon , Joaquín Ramo, Enrique Gran and Lucio Muñoz , with whom he married in 1960 ... he held his first solo exhibition at the gallery Fernando Fe de Madrid. In 1964 enters the legendary Gallery Juana Mordo , and in 1972 in the Biosca Gallery , both in Madrid . Participates in numerous exhibitions on the Spanish realism worldwide ... In 1978 he was awarded the Goya Award Villa de Madrid. In 1992 a major exhibition ( " Another reality . Partners in Madrid " ) on the group of friends, both realistic and abstract that arose around the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ... In 1997 he performed a retrospective exhibition held at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid and was awarded the Medal of Artistic Merit of the City of Madrid ... in 2004 he published his memoirs " from behind closed doors " with remarkable success in the art world ... His realistic painting it mainly focuses on the city of Madrid , of which portrays its streets, shops, facades damaged by the passage of time. The first period of his painting has a social component, the presence of the human figure , which is slowly disappearing. The artist herself has recognized on numerous occasions that it is not a hyperrealistic painting and technical perfection is not what most worries , but being able to reflect the imprint of the human, of those other anonymous lives that are so appealing . In