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.

Pop Art is an artistic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States in the mid-20th century, and represented a challenge to traditional “Fine Arts”. Find out more 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...

In 1958, he finished the painting course at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, where he metRené Bertholo, Gonçalo Duarte, coast pine It isLourdes Castro. In a studio shared withJoao Vieira, René Bertholo and Gonçalo Duarte on the top floor of “Café Gelo”, joins the group of visual artists who became known as “Ice Coffee Group”. Before that, however, he had already joined the MAR (Movement for the Renewal of Religious Art) started in 1952 and which, quoting, “corresponds to the realization of the will of a group of Catholic artists committed to elevating religious architecture and sacred art in Portugal to greater...