Antoni Tapies is a Spanish Catalan painter. He is famous for his influence of European abstract expressionist movement. Tapies studied law for 3 years, but eventually dropped out deciding to devote himself to his painting. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War.
Tapies helped co-found the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau-al-Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements.
