The poet and artist Cruzeiro Seixas (1920-2020) was one of the founders of Portuguese Surrealism, a movement to which he has always remained loyal, as he considered it "unique and revolutionary" in the history of art. His fine line drawings have always been faithful to that aesthetic language, which emerged in the early 1920s with the aim of transforming society and freeing the spirit. He dreamed and imagined, without aesthetic or moral impositions, in the world of plastic art, but also poetry. He is the author of a vast work in several fields, from drawing and painting, but also in poetry,...

Virgil Abloh, designer of the luxury brand's menswear collectionLouis Vuitton and founder ofOff white, passed away on November 28, at the age of 41 from cancer. He was responsible for changing the fashion industry, having extended this influence to the world of visual arts as well. Discover how the American designerdeconstruct cultural patterns.

José de Guimarães is one of the rare Portuguese artists whose international career is more important than his national one. His artistic vocation emerged in 1967, when he went to work as a military engineer. The first steps in the world of the arts were inspired by the artistic manifestations of African culture and Pop Art. Other influences range from the baroque style of Rubens to the abstractionism of Klee and Kandinsky.For several decades, José de Guimarães has intersected non-verbal relationships in her work. In each figure, symbol, texture and color, there are very specific characteristics that create a creative reading about...

On Toilet Day we talk about a legend from the history of art:The source by Marcel Duchamp.Anyone familiar with the work of the French artist knows that he created “readymades” - objects removed from their natural function and modified or recontextualized to belong to an artistic aesthetic. A Source and other readymades questioned the very definition of art: What is a work of art? Who decides, the artist or the critic? Can a work derive only from an idea or does it require the hand of the creator? Get to know the narrative of one of the most important works of art of...