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List Of Portuguese Artists
This is a list of artists from, or associated with Portugal. Artists are listed in alphabetical order by last name. A * Add Fuel (born 1980), visual artist and illustrator * Jorge Afonso (c. 1470-1540) * Nadir Afonso (1920-2013) * Filipe Alarcão (born 1963), designer * Francisco Keil do Amaral (1910-1975) * Helena Almeida (1934-2018) * Sofia Areal (born 1960) B * Bordalo II (born 1987), street artist * Carlos Botelho (1899-1982) * Manuel Botelho (born 1950) * João de Brito (born 1958), Portuguese-American artist, oil painter and sculptor C * Pedro Calapez (born 1953) * Fernando Calhau (1948-2002) * Nuno de Campos (born 1969) * Manuel Cargaleiro (1927-2024), painter and ceramist * Manuel Carmo (1958-2015) * António Carneiro (1872-1930) * João Carqueijeiro (born 1954), Plastic arts, plastic artist * Nicolau Chanterene (1485-1555), French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain * Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book artist * Evelina Coelho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Carneiro
António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior (16 September 1872 – 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, poet and art professor. Biography Born into a working-class family, at the age of seven, he was abandoned by his father and lost his mother not long after. In 1879, he was placed in an orphanage operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia. It was there that he received his basic education and had his first drawing lessons.Biography : "António Carneiro, Antigo Estudante da Academia de Belas-Artes do Porto" from the . His talent was noticed early and thanks to the efforts of his teacher and the school's director, he was able to enroll at the "" in 1884, where he stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Domingomes
Carlos AMD Gomes (aka Domingomes, 7 May 1980 in Le Puy-en-Velay, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a Portuguese film director and producer. As an instructor, he worked with the education and training areas at schools in Lisbon: Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, Escola Secundária Sebastião e Silva, and Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, where he began his teaching career on film, video, photography, and sound. Biography He has an MFA in Audiovisual & Multimedia from the ESCS in Lisbon, and graduated from the ESTC ( Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) (Portuguese National School of Theater and Cinema) in Amadora. In 2002 he shot his first medium-length film, entitled Lá em Cima Bem Perto do Céu ("Up There, Close to Heaven"), a fictionalised documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Coelho Maduro Dias
Francisco Coelho Maduro Dias (Angra do Heroismo, 12 February 1904 – Angra do Heroismo, 21 December 1986) was a Portuguese poet, painter, sculptor, illustrator, teacher, set designer and an overall "theatre man". He was one of the founders of the Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira (literally ''Historical Institute of Terceira Island''), having an important role in the cultural scene of the first half of the Azorean twentieth century. Biography Projected the "Cruzeiro da Restauração da Independência" (literally ''Cruise of the Restoration of Independence''), in Pico Matias Simão, in the parish of Altares, inaugurated on 8 December 1940. On 14 June 1950 he was made a Knight of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (), formerly known as the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit (), is one of the four former ancient Portu .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Dacosta
António Dacosta (3 November 1914 - 2 December 1990) was a Portuguese painter, poet and art critic and a pioneer of the surrealist movement in Portugal. Early life Dacosta was born in Angra do Heroísmo and grew up on Terceira island, in the Azores. Although he had no formal art training, Dacosta drew and painted from an early age. He completed his studies at the Angra High School and in 1935 left Terceira to attend the ''Escola de Belas Artes'' ( Lisbon School of Fine Arts). Strongly opposed to the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal and horrified by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent Nationalist victory, his painting took a menacing and surrealistic turn. He displayed his first paintings at Casa Repe in 1940 along with fellow painter António Pedro and English sculptor, Pamela Boden. He also showed at the annual national Salon of Modern Art where he won the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize in 1942. He became one of the forerunners of the surrealistic movement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. It has a crystalline texture, and is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (Layered intrusion, layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorphosed limestone, but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. The extraction of marble is performed by quarrying. Marble production is dominated by four countries: China, Italy, India and Spain, which account for almost half of world production of marble and decorative stone. Because of its high hardness and strong wear resistance, and because it will not be deformed by temperature, marble is often used in Marble sculpture, sculpture and construction. Etymology The word "marble" derives from the Ancient Greek (), from (), "crystalline rock, shin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Cutileiro
João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble. Life Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of modern public sculpture, most famous being his statue of Sebastian of Portugal, inaugurated in 1973, in Lagos, in the Algarve. His work marks the end of the academic historical sculpture of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the beginning of a new era of contemporaneity in the Portuguese public sculpture. Works Estátua_de_D._Sancho_I_frente_ao_Castelo_de_Torres_Novas.JPG, Statue of Sancho I of Portugal facing the Castelo de Torres Novas in Torres Novas, 2007 Statue_of_Sebastian_of_Portugal_in_Lagos_(1).JPG, Statue of Sebastian of Portugal in Lagos, Algarve, 2014 João Cutileiro' s Sculpture (14502962177).jpg, Sculpture at the Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Algarve, 2009 João_Cutileiro_January_2016-1.jpg, Sculptures in the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Colaço
Jorge Colaço (26 February 1868 – 23 August 1942) was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (''azulejo'') painter. Jorge Colaço was born in Tangier, Morocco, the son of a Portuguese diplomat. He studied art in Lisbon, Madrid and Paris. Even though Jorge Colaço was a canvas painter and caricaturist, he specialised in designing and painting azulejo panels to decorate large surfaces. His designs had a late Romantic taste, celebrating the achievements of Portuguese history. Along with historical themes, he also produced ethnographic and landscape scenes. Among his most important works are tile panels in the Palace Hotel of Bussaco (1907); São Bento railway station in Porto (1905–1916); Sports Pavilion of Eduardo VII Park in Lisbon (1922); façade of the Church of Saint Ildefonso in Porto (1932) and many others. He also has works in Brazil, England (Windsor Castle), Geneva (Centre William Rappard) and other countries. Gallery File:Azulejos Parque E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Dias Coelho
José Dias Coelho (1923 in Pinhel – 1961 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In his youth, José Dias Coelho joined the Antifascist Academic Front. Later on, as a student of the Art Academy of Lisbon, he was a member of the Juvenile MUD. In 1947 he participated in a great number of student demonstrations and actively pressed for the creation of an Academic Association in the Art Academy and against the 1952 NATO meeting in Lisbon. As a consequence of this action, he was expelled from the Art Academy, prohibited to enroll in any other faculty of the country and dismissed from his teaching position in the technical section of the educational system. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party in his early twenties and soon became an important member of the party's clandestine net that struggled against the Fascists. He died as a secret worker of the party when he was assassinated by PIDE, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelina Coelho
Maria Evelina Coelho Martins da Fonseca (23 May 1945 – 26 November 2013), whose artistic name was Evelina Coelho, was a Portuguese painter, from Vila Fernando, Guarda, Portugal. Biographical notes She was born in Vila Fernando, Guarda, Portugal, and she died when 68 years old in Guarda, Portugal. She graduated in painting from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa. Career Coelho had more than two hundred exhibitions, in Portugal, Spain (Ciudad Rodrigo, Barcelona, San Sebastian and Salamanca), France (Paris, Bayonne, Riom, Orléans, Puy, Vicky, Clermont-Ferrand, Langeac, Béziers, Cherbourg and Vittel), Switzerland (Montreaux), Germany (Siegbourg), Canada (Quebec), and in São Paulo, Brazil. She was awarded in Belgium by the European Foundation with the grade of ''Comendadora e Grande Oficial''. She won Ganhou uma honourable mention in Béziers, Barcelona and Évora Évora ( , ), officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Teixeira Coelho
Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (January 4, 1919 in Angra do Heroísmo – May 31, 2005) was a Portuguese comic book artist best known for his adventure series '' Ragnar le Viking''. In some of his early work he used the pseudonym Martin Sievre. Born in Terceira island, in the Azores, Coelho's career began, when he moved to the Mainland Portugal. His most notable work there was for the magazine ''Mosquito'', beginning in 1943. He moved to Brazil in the 1950s and taught at the Pan-American School of Art in São Paulo. In 1955 he moved to France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ... and for the next several decades worked on a number of series, many of them for the magazine '' Vaillant'', including ''Ragnar''. He died on 31 May 2005. External linksLambiek Comiclopedia entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea, and the Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and List of largest cities in Spain, largest city is Madrid, and other major List of metropolitan areas in Spain, urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
