Photography emerged in the 19th century, a period in which painting and sculpture were the major forms of expression.From the 1970s onwards, with a greater incidence in the 1980s, the camera invaded the territory of Art, that is, cultural spaces such as museums and galleries, thus leaving practically in the background the documentary aspect of the representation of reality. While in the artistic world there was a certain uncertainty about this new machine, in the area of communication it was received as a great ally.To celebrate World Photography Day, P55 presents in this article five artists who have transformed the...
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In the Plastic Arts, the theme of animals is recurrent, since the beginning of humanity due to the constant interest of Man in representing them due to cultural, historical, social, religious, scientific and ethical factors. In order to understand how the society of each respective era approached animal representation, in this article we go through creative and social terms, from the beginning of humanity to the present day.
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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...
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Screen printing is a printing method that offers the possibility of transferring an illustration to paper or fabric through the stamping process.This is an ancient technique that emerged in the East, however it had a greater impact on art, starting in the 1950s with the Pop Art artistic movement. Through works on American culture, Andy Warhol It is Roy Lichtenstein popularized this mode of reproduction. Nowadays, many artists like Vhils, Banksy, João Cutileiro, José Guimarães, among others, have used serigraphy in order to develop their artistic production in different ways. Are you curious to know how to produce a serigraphy? Learn with...
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