Manuel Cargaleiro (1927), is one of the last painters to join the well-known Paris school and the lyrical abstractionist movement. His works can be found in various parts of the world, with a public work in Portugal at the Colégio Militar station, but also in Paris.In Italy, he fostered a special connection to the Italian city of Vietri Sul Mare, currently home to the Fondazione Museo Artistico Industriale. Manuel Cargaleiro. He continues to this day to work hard, still in Paris. Meet the master of lyrical abstractionism in this article.
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Do you already have plans for February? In order not to miss news from the artistic world, P55 has put together a list of seven art exhibitions that will take place during the month of February. Take a look at this guide and discover the perfect proposal for you.
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Paula Rego is one of the most recognized Portuguese artists, mainly for the realistic works that follow the lines of Goya, Hogarth and Beckmann. Throughout the career, Paula Rego has been building a visual language that combines literary references mainly from 19th and 20th century works with autobiographical elements.
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After the Second World War, a new expression emerged in the art world, developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. In the midst of the cold war, Jackson Pollock's works expressed the idea of freedom that the United States intended to communicate to the rest of the world. Thus, this movement was embraced due to its impression of spontaneity and as a way to “fight” Russian figurative art. For the artists, this movement, characterized by spontaneous gestural brushstrokes, was a way of expressing their emotions in an abstract way, as the name implies.
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