In a debate between the abstract and the figuration, Artur Bual (1926-1999) was one of the first Portuguese artists to express the very act of creating, from the gestural painting. In the 1950s, Artur Bual He appeared in the Portuguese artistic middle, at the same time, that abstract art affirmed in modern movements. At this time marked by the intense changes in plastic techniques and forms, the Portuguese artist
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In a debate between the abstract and the figuration, Artur Bual (1926-1999) was one of the first Portuguese artists to express the very act of creating, from the gestural painting. In the 1950s, Artur Bual He appeared in the Portuguese artistic middle, at the same time, that abstract art affirmed in modern movements. At this time marked by the intense changes in plastic techniques and forms, the Portuguese artist stood out in the modern art hall of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1958, when he exhibited his first sign painting. With spontaneous and emotional language, his screens are filled with emotions through wide and dynamic gestures and strong colors like black, white, yellow, red, blue and gray. He was one of the biggest Portuguese painters in the second half of the twentieth century, a pioneer of gestural painting in our country, sculptor and ceramist. He attended the School of Decorative Arts António Arroio and in 1947 he began his career as a painter. He was the fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris and held his first individual exposure in the early 1950s. He later exposed in a variety of spaces, such as the portico galleries and daily news gallery in Lisbon; Galeria Gees van der Geer in the Netherlands; Gallery of the Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Spain; Real Senate, Macau and Hong-Kong.In addition to artistic practice, other creative functions, having been a plastic director in several theater works taken to the scene at the Experimental Theater of Cascais and Porto, was a graphic director of the magazine of Arts and letters "Catavento" and illustrated the books "supreme instinct" of Ferreira de Castro and "The joyful nights of a Boticario" Miguel Barbosa. Exposed in a variety of spaces, such as the Portico Galleries and Daily News Gallery in Lisbon, Galeria Gees Van Der Geer in the Netherlands, Ayuntamiento de Córdoba Gallery in Spain, Real Senate in Macau and Hong-Kong and is represented in several collections National and foreign, namely at the Lisbon Palace of Justice at the Modern Art Center at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the National Museum of Modern Art at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Amadora Town Hall. ver menos
