Javea painting by Armando Pons artist: Breakwater of the port 102x62 cm

BIOGRAPHY:
Armando Pons Pitarch Valencian painter was born on August 12, 1962 in Villarreal, Castellón (Spain). He felt the call of art since childhood and soon realized that what he wanted to do in life was to become a painter.
In 1974, with only 12 years, he won his first painting prize at an event organized by the City Council of Vila-real and in that same year he also won the first drawing prize of the Els Lluisos Congregation of Vila-real. This gave him the possibility to exhibit his paintings. There he met the painter and teacher Carmen Tomás, who invited him to attend his night classes at the Francisco Tarrega Institute in Vila-real, where he used to paint still lifes of the natural.
In 1975 he entered the School of Arts and Crafts in Castellón where he attended the statue drawing classes taught by the great portraitist D. Ramón Catalán. Those years, following the advice of D. Ramón, were decisive to generate strong convictions in the drawing and in the pictorial tradition.
At that time his work was fundamentally hyperrealistic as it was to be assumed in a young man in a period of training, but at 16 he changed his style and began using a peculiar technique by painting the figures with unmelted spots between them, but at a distance determined were mixed optically.
In 1980 he moved to Barcelona where he tried to continue his training at the La Massana School of Sumptuary Arts (municipal center of visual arts, applied arts and design of the city of Barcelona, Spain). This experience enriched him as an artist, mainly motivated by the wide variety of museums.
After his stay in Barcelona, he visited the Prado Museum for the first time in Madrid (Spain), which he considers his true school.
In 1993, he worked for three months at the Provincial Museum of Castellón, copying and studying the painter José de Ribera y Cucó, father of Spanish naturalism (also known by his Italianized name Giuseppe Ribera and with the nickname Lo Spagnoletto)
In 1994, he attended the circle of Fine Arts in Valencia (Spain), where he sought, through the drawing of the human body, the simplification of painting.
It was in 1995 when he joined the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, seeking answers regarding the mysteries hidden behind José de Ribera. However, museums were their authentic school, the only place where the pictorial tradition was preserved. His visits to the Prado Museum are regular when he is in Spain and the reason is in the splendid collection of Diego Velázquez and other teachers of the Spanish school who have left a deep mark on his work.
From 2004 to 2010, he has shared the job of a painter with the work of teaching.
Since 2011 he lives and works in Bangkok.