Julião Sarmento, one of the most recognized contemporary Portuguese artists, passed away on the morning of Tuesday, May 4th, leaving behind a notorious and emblematic work punctuated by experimentation with all means and techniques. Over the last five decades, the multidisciplinarity of the Portuguese artist's work has addressed themes such as eroticism, sexuality, literature or cinema. Far from presenting an exhaustive constitution of his works, this article highlights the lines of investigation and creation that Julião Sarmento obsessively explored throughout his extensive career.

The representation of Jesus Crucified Christ is a recurring theme in the Catholic religion, due to the relevance of this episode and the symbolism of the cross. This matrix icon manifests Christ's suffering, but also his salvation. The iconography of Christ's suffering and death has become, in the history of art, a way of representing human emotions and exploring various techniques based on a Catholic mission to sensitize the spectator. From the 20th century onwards, artists began to represent this moment with their own unique emotions and artistic languages. In order to understand how the artists portray this relevant episode for the Catholic religion, we will start with a discovery that will start with the origin of this practice until its representation in the artistic production of Artur Bual It is José Rodrigues.

This Sunday is Easter, an important moment in the Catholic and Jewish tradition, although they have different meanings for both. Jews celebrate the liberation of their people from Egypt, while Catholics remember Christ's suffering on the cross for the redemption of sins and his resurrection three days after his death. The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus it will have happened at the time of the celebration of the Jewish Passover, so both happen at the same time. Starting from five works present in the Marketplace of P55, we make a journey through the last moments of Jesus Christ.

The visual element of color is used to create the atmosphere of a work of art, as it stimulates our emotions and perceptions. Thus, they offer us disparate responses such as harmony or conflict, hot or cold, due to the combination of pigments: a blue can be warm or cold, depending on the composition (it may tend more towards yellow or green). This is a journey through the use of color, which starts at the beginning of the 19th century and stops at various times, up to the present day.

Plates, computer keyboards, bicycle tires are some of the objects chosen byBordalo II for the production of his works.The choice of these materials is Artur Bordalo's way of criticizing the way we live today. Waste, materialism, our own consumerism and the urgent need for sustainability are the themes addressed in their installations.

Luís Noronha da Costa (1942-2020) was a Portuguese artist, considered one of the most important representatives of Portuguese contemporary art of the 20th century. Learn more about the artist here.

At Casa das Histórias, in Cascais, the exhibition entitled "Paula Rego / Josefa de Óbidos - Religious art in the feminine" shows, until May 23, 115 works by Paula Rego, some of them unpublished, and 21 paintings by Jose de Óbidos. The House of Stories Paula Rego proposes an unusual visit to the work of two visionary and innovative authors, who went beyond pre-established concepts and established their artistic irreverence through the exploration of timeless themes.

Nadir Afonso (1920-2013) is one of the most outstanding figures of 20th century Portuguese painting. His life was guided by a prolific artistic production, to which he associated a theoretical aspect in search of the «absolute» in art. His work went through several stages until he reached abstractionism marked by the work of geometric shapes, in which he saw the only source of harmony, by the clarity of his mathematical laws, a principle to which his incursion into architecture is not alien.

In your life Basquiat achieved remarkable notoriety, becoming a prototype of an eccentric and controversial artistic genius, surrendering himself to the arts with rebelliousness, but also to money, fame and power. Discover the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

There is good news for the art world: the purchase of graphic work It is growing.We call graphic work the set of works of art that result from the combination of different techniques that the artist applies in a series production. Great artists in the history of art such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol It is Salvador Dalí produced a lot of graphic work throughout their careers.Today we are going to explain 5 reasons to buy graphic work and why it is a very good idea.

The imaginary of Vieira da Silva it takes place in a dynamism where the parts of the painting do not completely eclipse the composition. Discover more about the life and work of Vieira da Silva here.

Every self-respecting artist has a more or less identifiable origin, and with Vhils It could not be otherwise. As he himself mentions,Vhils he made his first graffiti at the age of 12 on the surface of several trains in his city, with the sole intention of painting his tag there.Although uncommissioned street art runs the risk of being sanctioned as an act of vandalism, the reality is thatVhils it was part, unknowingly, of the history of what Americans call tagging or pseudonymous signatures. Learn more about the Portuguese artist here.

With a new vision of sculptural practice, João Cutileiro (1937-2021) marked the history of Portuguese art by transforming the artistic and cultural landscape of this country. From the end of the 1950s, his marble works marked by experimentalism, eroticism, nature and national history, became visible in the Portuguese public space. «Dom Sebastião de Lagos» (1973) and the monument to the 25th of April, at the top of the Eduardo VII park, in Lisbon, are two sculptures that marked the artistic and political career of João Cutileiro. In addition to the public space, his works were exhibited in several museum spaces and national and international biennials, such as the Unikat-Galerie, in Wuppertal, Germany, the Royal Academy of Arts, in London, the Museum of Lagos (1978), the XV International Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil (1979), among others.