IVÁN DEL ARCO SANTIAGO
Iván del Arco holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Salamanca, having completed his senior year at the University of Sienna, Italy, thanks to the European Union´s Erasmus program. He got an M.A. in the same field thanks to an original study about animated films titled “Symbols and Aesthetics in Walt Disney´s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, graded with a sobresaliente cum laude.
He is the author of several article and critical works about design and art history, a task he has completed with his role as a professor, both in middle school and at a college level, in art schools all over Castilla. He has taught a varied number of courses and disciplines, and he has also taken part in several conferences related to aesthetics and art history.
He has been a contributor with the Prado Museum since 2006, both as a keynote speaker in the “The Prado outside the Prado” program —hosted by the museum´s area of education—, in several conferences about artistic portraits, and within the program “Still life by Spanish painters in the Prado Museum”. He has also participated directly or indirectly in several installations and exhibitions in the artistic context. This aspect is completed with the elaboration of scripts as those made for the collection “Salamanca, village to village” with over 150 numbers.
He currently enjoys a tenured position at the Department of Art History at the Art and Design School in Soria.