Menez, of his name Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca, was a Portuguese artist, Natural of Lisbon. Autodidata, it reaches the painting by the impulse of a personal vocation matured to contact with the visual arts and with the numerous trips he held, producing the first tables in 1952.
The brushed and loose brushstroke confers on her works an atmospheric and diaphanous quality that criticizes her neo-impressionism. The color of the colorist is also evident in a
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Menez, of his name Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca, was a Portuguese artist, Natural of Lisbon. Autodidata, it reaches the painting by the impulse of a personal vocation matured to contact with the visual arts and with the numerous trips he held, producing the first tables in 1952.
The brushed and loose brushstroke confers on her works an atmospheric and diaphanous quality that criticizes her neo-impressionism. The color of the colorist is also evident in a wide palette of colors organizing in tonal gradations or inversely, whistling in intense contrasts of light and shadow on constructive structures in quadrones.
Menez He was the bag of the Gulbenkian Foundation, in two distinct seasons, between 1964-65 and 1969, during his stay in London, having participated in the three editions of the FCG plastic arts exhibitions (1957, 1961, with a second painting premium; 1986 ). Over the 1960s and 1970s, his work was regular presence in some major international shows of Portuguese art (Biennial of Tokyo, 1966, Art Portugais - du Naturalisme to the Jours, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, 1967; Hoy Portuguesa Painting - Abstract Y Neofigurative, Madrid, Salamanca, Barcelona, 1973; English Since 1910, London, 1978.).
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