PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS LAUREATES FOR THE ARTS
The award will be bestowed upon the person, institution, group of people or group of institutions whose work in Architecture, Cinematography, Dance, Sculpture, Music, Painting or other forms of artistic expression constitutes a significant contribution to Mankind's cultural heritage.
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2010
Richard Serra
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Richard Serra is regarded as one of the most relevant avant-garde sculptors in the second half of the 19th century, for his innovative vision of incorporating urban spaces in pieces of art that entice people to reflect.
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2009
Norman Foster
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Norman Foster, an architect of the global era, brilliantly anticipates the only polis possible in the 21st century
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2008
The National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
for having combined, within a single project, the highest artistic quality and a profound ethical conviction applied for the improvement of our social reality.
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2007
Bob Dylan
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
A living legend in the history of popular music and a guiding light for a generation that dreamt to change the world
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2006
Pedro Almodóvar
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
one of Spain´s most internationally acclaimed filmmakers
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2005
Maya Plisetskaya & Tamara Rojo
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Maya Plisetskaya, considered to be the twentieth century's greatest dancer, has achieved the most prestigious position that an artist in this speciality can ever achieve: "Absolute Prima Ballerina".
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2004
Paco de Lucía
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Francisco Sánchez Gómez, better known under his artistic pseudonym of Paco de Lucía.
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2003
Miquel Barceló
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Miquel Barceló has shown to be one of the great artists of our times from his very youth.
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2002
Woody Allen
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
His exemplary independence and his keen critical sense highlight the fact that he is a citizen of the world with his roots in New York.
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2001
Krzysztof Penderecki
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Doctor honoris causa at several universities, and has been awarded numerous distinctions, including several Grammys and the award for the best composer at the Midem Festival of Cannes (2000).
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2000
Barbara Hendricks
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Her artistic talent, together with these actions, are a fine example of the commitment of Art towards Society.
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1999
Santiago Calatrava Valls
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
has achieved well-deserved international prestige
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1998
Sebastião Salgado
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Brazilian photographer who has known how to portray the human condition and to render the inequalities of the modern world.
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1997
Vittorio Gassmann
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Regarding the theater and the cinema, Gassmann is a consummate interpretational model casted in the molds of talent.
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1996
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
The Jury has valued most especially the maestro Rodrigo's definitive contribution.
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1995
Fernando Fernán-Gómez
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Extraordinary comic who, in an artistic and professional life of more that half a century, has built up in Spain and America -on the basis of the greater wealth of this personality- an enviable biography.
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1994
Alicia de Larrocha
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Pianist and teacher of musicians, who, after more than fifty years of brilliant performances keeps the tradition of the great Spanish instrumentalists -Casals, Segovia, Zabaleta...-.
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1993
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
In recognition of a long professional career as an architect restrained only by the code of his own creativity.
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1992
Roberto Matta Echaurren
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
His work, which explores the relationship between verbal and pictorial language.
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1991
Generation of Spanish Lyrical Singers
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
The artists who, as a group, receive this Award, personify with their immense musical talent a moment of exceptional brilliance in our lyrical music.
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1990
Antoni Tàpies
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Visual artist and aesthetic thinker, who, from Surrealism to the early days of "matter" informalism, has projected over the world.
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1989
Óscar Niemeyer
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Óscar Niemeyer ha sido uno de los pioneros del Movimiento Moderno Internacional y es un destacadísimo arquitecto iberoamericano del siglo XX.
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1988
Jorge Oteiza
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
In his sculpture, his essays on art, aesthetics and anthropology, his poetic work and his constant search for new perspectives for integrating and redefining the arts.
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1987
Eduardo Chillida
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
Creator of work of universal value in which telluric force and spirituality are combined.
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1986
Luis García Berlanga
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
One of the great creators of cinema of our times, who undertakes throughout his work, with exemplary independence, a critical but good-natured analysis of Spanish society.
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1985
Antonio López García
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
In recognition of his mastery in the exercise of visual arts.
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1984
Orfeón Donostiarra
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
In recognition of its exceptional quality of performance; of the continuity of its disinterested artistic work, maintained over eighty seven years.
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1983
Eusebio Sempere
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
For the deep, significant coherence of his work; in recognition if his criteria of exploration, renovation and dissemination of new means of expression.
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1982
Pablo Serrano Aguilar
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
For the universal transcendence of his work, as well as for its creative and humanistic dimension.
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1981
Jesús López Cobos
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts
In recognition of his most outstanding position in the European panorama of symphonic music and opera.