Júlio Resende

Between figuration and abstraction, the works of Júlio Resende (1917-2011) express a transition of artistic movements that end up becoming interconnected. The Portuguese painter portrayed, in a personal way, his lyrical tastes in the plastic experiments he carried out. He began his career as an illustrator in several periodicals, after completing a painting course in 1945 at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto. The expressionist phase began with his move to Paris, where he studied fresco and engraving techniques. Between 1949 and 1950, he lived in Viana do Alentejo where he worked as a teacher, having developed at this time several dynamic compositions that characterize the social and cultural environment of this space. In 1951 he settled in Porto, continuing to teach and maintaining his artistic production diversified between expressionism, geometrism, gesturalism, non-figuration and neofigurativism.

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