Militant and staunch supporter of the Surrealist movement, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923-2006) wrote, painted and drew, in exactly this order, from the age of 19. His work, both poetic and plastic, contributes to the construction of contemporary history. The painter stood out in the artistic panorama by rejecting any technical and formal concerns, having been the first to create a surrealist collage in post-war Portugal. His career was intense, with the two areas, visual arts and writing, continually interconnecting, as his poems gave rise to paintings and vice versa.Discover part of his vast poetic work through the five excerpts published in this...

At the height ofAbstract Expressionism, the Pop Art movement emerged, with artists such as Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, who created works about American popular culture and everyday life. It is in this movement that Roy Lichtenstein gained prominence and became one of the most famous artists. His works on mass culture and capitalism were developed in a more positive light compared to his colleagues. Currently, his works break records in the art market, with the sale ofNurse 1964, for $95.4 million at a Christie's auction in the fall of 2015. Discover seven little-known facts about the artist who created the iconic works...

The representation of the landscape, that is, of the observed territory, is a constant throughout the history of art, its relevance being notable for telling the history and memory of spaces. Without ever forgetting their origins, many artists have come to represent Portuguese traditions in their paintings, influenced by the impressionists and naturalists such as Silva Porto and Carlos Reis, among others. In a particular and harmonious way, these artists have built a path from north to south, on the beauty of Portuguese landscapes, whether urban or rural. Travel, without leaving your home, along the paths of Portugal, based on...

Júlio Pomar was one of the artists with the greatest impact on the Portuguese arts of the 20th century, since the beginning of his career.For seven decades it managed to constantly reinvent itself, whether in the techniques and means used or in artistic movements. Among modern Portuguese painters, Júlio Pomar is one of the few — as Paula Rego — whose figuration, not only human, is the main theme. Many were the animals portrayed by Júlio Pomar: the pig, the monkey, the tiger, the crow, the elephant, the giraffe, the deer, the turtle, the bull, the cat, the horse, the dog, the lobo,...