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Artists in alphabetical order
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Sarah AFFONSO (1899-1983)
Sarah Affonso was born on May 13th, 1899, in Lisbon, during the upheaval of the fin de siècle, a time replete with mental and political changes that would culminate in Portuguese Modernism. >Learn More
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Nadir AFONSO (1920)
Nadir Afonso was born in 1920 in Codeçais, Chaves. He completed his studies in Architecture at the Oorto School of Fine Art and subsequently studied Painting at the École des Beaux Arts of Paris. >Learn More
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Gabriela ALBERGARIA (1965)
Gabriela Albergaria was born in Vale de Cambra in 1965. In 1990, she completed her studies in Painting at the FBAUP to then become a Gulbenkian Foundation scholar between 1991 and 1993. >Learn More
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José de ALMADA NEGREIROS (1893-1970)
For all those who knew him, Almada Negreiros was a charismatic figure. His name has become almost synonymous with twentieth century Portuguese art... >Learn More
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Helena ALMEIDA (1934)
Helena Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1934. She completed a Painting degree at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon... >Learn More
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Dominguez ALVAREZ (1906-1942)
Born in Oporto in 1906, Álvarez began his studies in Architecture at ESBAP in 1926. >Learn More
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António AREAL (1928-1978)
António Areal was born in Porto in 1928. He died in Lisbon in 1978. A cardiac disease hindered his studies... >Learn More
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Bárbara ASSIS PACHECO (1973)
Bárbara Assis Pacheco was born in Lisbon in 1973. She currently lives and works in Lisbon. Assis Pacheco graduated in Architecture... >Learn More
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Manuel BAPTISTA (1936)
Manuel Baptista was born in Faro in 1936. He began studying Architecture in 1957, a course he abandoned in order to dedicate himself exclusively to painting. >Learn More
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Jorge BARRADAS (1894-1971)
Jorge Nicholson Moore Barradas was born in Lisbon in 1894. He died in 1971. >Learn More
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José BARRIAS (1944)
In an introductory note to the organisation of his work, José Barrias explains that he discovered the structural features of his work in Obstbuch/O Livro dos Frutos (1972-73) >Learn More
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Armando BASTO (1889-1923)
Armando Basto was born in Oporto in 1889. He died in Guimarães in 1923. >Learn More
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Eduardo BATARDA (1943)
Eduardo Batarda was born in Coimbra in 1943. He completed his primary and secondary studies in his city of birth and matriculated in Medicine, a course he attended for a year, channelling his interests into the University’s academic crises... >Learn More
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René BERTHOLO (1935)
Born in 1935 in Alhandra, René Bertholo studied at ESBAL between 1951 and 1957. An experimentalist attitude created in him a strong resistence towards academic study at a very early age. >Learn More
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Michael BIBERSTEIN (1948)
Michael Biberstein, born in Switzerland in 1948, has lived and worked in Portugal for almost two decades. He has mainly researched landscape as a theme ... >Learn More
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Roger BISSIÈRE (1886-1964)
Roger Bissière was born in Villeréal, France in 1886 and died in Boissiérettes, France in 1964. >Learn More
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Daniel BLAUFUKS (1963)
Daniel Blaufuks was born in Portugal in 1963, of Jewish descent. After living in Germany for six years he returned to Lisbon where, beginning in 1987, he attended the photography course at the Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual (Ar.Co).s. >Learn More
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Carlos BOTELHO (1899-1982)
Carlos Botelho was born in Lisbon in 1899 (died Lisbon, 1982). The son of musicians, Carlos Botelho almost became a professional violinist, before he embraced the visual arts. >Learn More
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Manuel BOTELHO (1950)
Manuel Botelho was born in Lisbon in 1950 within a family of artists, architects and amateur musicians. He studied and trained as an architect (ESBAL, 1976)... >Learn More
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Miguel BRANCO (1963)
Miguel Branco studied Painting at ESBAL. His first exhibition, quite atypical in the light of his later shows, took place in 1988, and was called Objectos Discretos (Discreet Objects). >Learn More
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Joaquim BRAVO (1935-1990)
Joaquim Bravo was born in Évora, Portugal, in 1935. A self-taught artist, he attended the Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (Humanities School of the University of Lisbon) where he received a solid education in literature and philosophy... >Learn More
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Paulo BRIGHENTI (1968)
Paulo Brighenti, born in Lisbon in 1968, completed the Ar.Co’s Advanced Arts course and belongs to the most recent generation of Portuguese artists.
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Pedro CABRITA REIS (1956)
Born in Lisbon, 1956, Pedro Cabrita Reis studied Painting at the Escola Nacional de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (National School of Fine Arts of Lisbon) and has been exhibiting his work since the beginning of the 1980s... >Learn More
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Pedro CALAPEZ (1953)
In a country with little tradition within the field of painting, Pedro Calapez (Lisbon, 1953) represents a rare case of perseverance and proficiency... >Learn More
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Fernando CALHAU (1948-2002)
Fernando Calhau was born in Lisbon in 1948. He finished his Bachelor’s degree in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes, Lisboa (ESBAL) in 1973, and left for London that same year with a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant... >Learn More
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Carlos CALVET (1928)
Carlos Calvet was born in Lisbon in 1928.
He dedicated himself to painting very early on, although he completed an architectural degree >Learn More
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Ernesto CANTO DA MAIA (1890-1981)
Born in 1890 in Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel, the Azores, Canto da May died in 1981, in Prestes, on his isle of birth. >Learn More
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Alberto CARNEIRO (1937)
Between the years 1947 and 1958, when he busied himself working in wood, stone and ivory in his village’s religious art workshop, Carneiro claims he led an “imaginary” existence, a life lived completely in his own imagination. >Learn More
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António CARNEIRO (1872-1930)
António Carneiro was born in 1872. His artistic production should be framed within the turn-of-the century condition of self-acknowledged crisis and the difficulty of moving from one century to the next. >Learn More
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Stuart de CARVALHAIS (1887-1961)
Stuart Carvalhais introduced the comic strip to Portugal. His talents were prodigal and plural: he was a draughtsman, a movie director, an actor, and a graphic artist... >Learn More
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Pedro CASQUEIRO (1959)
Pedro Casqueiro was born in Lisbon in 1959 and attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Fine Arts) during the first half of the 1980s. >Learn More
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Lourdes de CASTRO (1930)
Lourdes Castro was born in Funchal, Madeira in 1930. She completed a painting degree at Escola Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa, in 1956... >Learn More
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Nuno CERA (1972)
Nuno Cera was born in Beja in 1972. Although he has a degree in Advertising from IADE, his daily practice as a photographer has defined his artistic course. Cera was a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar at the Musée Nicéphore Nièpce and at Jetlag Lx Macau in 1999. >Learn More
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Filipa CÉSAR (1975)
Early in her work, Filipa César nominated the anonymous citizen as the central character in her work... >Learn More
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Mário CESARINY (1923)
The creative force behind a vast poetic oeuvre in the literary and visual arts fields, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos is... >Learn More
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Rui CHAFES (1966)
The sculptural work of this artist is built according to a cohesive project, conceived of and developed since the first public presentations of his work... >Learn More
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Alexandre CONEFREY (1961)
Alexandre Conefrey was born in Lisbon in 1961. He attended Ar.Co’s drawing class between 1993 and 1995 ... >Learn More
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Gil Heitor CORTESÃO (1967)
Gil Heitor Cortesão was born in Lisbon in 1967. In 1990 he obtained his Painting degree at the Escola de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon Fine Arts School) and, in 1991-92, he attended the Academia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin (The Albertina Fine Arts Academy in Turin). >Learn More
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José Pedro CROFT (1957)
Croft’s emergence on the national artistic scene dates from the early eighties. Since then his visibility has grown and has been accompanied by strong critical acclamation. >Learn More
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Christiano CRUZ (1892-1951)
Christiano Alfredo Sheppard Cruz was born in Leiria in 1892. He died in 1951 in the city of Silva Porto, Angola.
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João CUTILEIRO (1937)
João Cutileiro was born in Lisbon in 1937. At an early age, he began frequenting, the studios of important artists. He learned how to draw with António Pedro. >Learn More
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António DACOSTA (1914-1990)
António Dacosta was born in Angra do Heroísmo (Azores) in 1914. He moved to Lisbon in 1935 where he studied Painting at ESBAL. >Learn More
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Robert DELAUNAY (1885-1941)
Robert Delaunay was born on the 12th of April 1885 in Paris. He received an artistic education from his uncles who initiated him into a very classical way of painting... >Learn More
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Sonia DELAUNAY (1885-1979)
Born in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay was a painter, costume and textile designer, creator of fashion and of “simultaneous” objects. >Learn More
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Pepe DINIZ (1945)
A freelance photographer in New York since 1975, Pepe Diniz (born in Tangier, 1945) is internationally renowned both for his images of cities and especially for his portraits of artists, writers, singers, photographers and other creative people ... >Learn More
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António Júlio DUARTE (1965)
António Júlio Duarte (born in 1965 in Lisbon) belongs to a generation of Portuguese photographers that had access to an organised and systematic photographic education in Portugal (mainly through Ar.Co – School of Art and Visual Communication – which he attended). >Learn More
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Mário ELOY (1900-1951)
On March 15th, 1900, Mário Eloy de Jesus Pereira was born and with him, the genesis of the second Portuguese Modernism... >Learn More
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José ESCADA (1934-1980)
José Escada was born in Lisbon in 1934, and died in the same city 46 years later. He initiated his artistic education at the Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio, graduating in 1950. >Learn More
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Alexandre ESTRELA (1971)
Alexandre Estrela was born in Lisbon in 1971 and is one of the youngest artists present in the Modern Art Centre’s permanent exhibition of its collection. >Learn More
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Armando FERRAZ (1968)
Armando Ferraz was born in 1968 in Lisbon. He studied Painting at the Escola de Belas-Artes do Porto (School of Fine Arts of Oporto) and is a contemporary of a group of creators gathered together by the magazine Confissões do Exílio (Confessions from Exile). >Learn More
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Manuel FILIPE (1908-2002)
Manuel Filipe was born in Condeixa in 1908. He died in Lisbon in 2002. He belonged to the generation of the Neo Realists, who sought to implement a New Humanism in the arts as well as in literature. >Learn More
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GAËTAN (1944)
Gaëtan is one of the artists most consistently questioning drawing in a country where, since the 70s, this medium has become the most fertile field in terms of conceptualisation and exploration of the linguistic and academically established limits of art. >Learn More
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João GALRÃO (1975)
João Galrão was born in Sintra in 1975. He completed his Course in Conservation and Restoration of Heritage Sites at EPRP in Sintra in 1996 and an Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Ar.Co, Lisbon. He has exhibited his work in group exhibitions since 1996. >Learn More
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André GOMES (1951)
With a degree in philosophy from the University of Lisbon, André Gomes (Lisbon, 1951) has systematically used the medium of photography as privileged territory to question the subject, and the construction of its identity and position in the world. >Learn More
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Pedro GOMES (1972)
Pedro Gomes was born in Mozambique in 1972. He completed the Curso Avançado de Artes Plásticas (Advanced Fine Arts Course) at the Ar.Co and an MA Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art, in London. >Learn More
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George GROSZ (1893-1958)
George Grosz was born in 1893 in Berlin. He was expelled from school before completing his compulsory education because he hit a teacher. >Learn More
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Jorge GUERRA (1936)
Jorge Guerra is a figure of undeniable importance to the history of Portuguese and Canadian photography alike, particularly in 1970s and 1980s. >Learn More
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José de GUIMARÃES (1939)
Born José Maria Fernandes Marques in 1939 in Guimarães, José de Guimarães adopted his pseudonym in 1961. Currently he lives and works in Lisbon. >Learn More
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Ana HATHERLY (1929)
Poet, novelist, essayist, translator and visual artist, Ana Hatherly was born in Porto in 1929. She moved to Lisbon at an early age and still lives and works... >Learn More
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João Navarro HOGAN (1914-1988)
João Navarro Hogan was born on the 4th of February, 1914 and died in Lisbon on the 16th of June, 1988 after suffering a stroke. Grandson of the watercolourist Ricardo Hogan and nephew to the painter Álvaro Navarro Hogan, this artist of Irish ancestry spent his entire life in Lisbon. >Learn More
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Ana JOTTA (1946)
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946. She studied in Brussels at the La Cambre School.
Her artistic work represents one of the most stimulating and puzzling enigmas for critical discourse. >Learn More
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Fernando LANHAS (1923)
Architect and Painter, poet, astronomer, a collector of pebbles who appreciates their dusky textures, Fernando Lanhas is one of the pioneers of Geometric Abstraction in Portugal... >Learn More
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Álvaro LAPA (1939-2006)
Álvaro Lapa was born in Évora in 1939. A self-taught artist with an academic education in Philosophy (Faculdades de Letras e de Direito de Lisboa / Law School and Humanities on the University of Lisboa, 1956-60), he had contact with modern painting early on through Charrua. >Learn More
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Fernand LÉGER
Fernand Léger was born in Argentan, France 1881 and died in Gif-sur-Yvette, France 1995.
To create simple images for simple men: this statement summarises Fernand Léger’s oeuvre. >Learn More
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Catarina LEITÃO (1970)
Catarina Leitão was born in Stuttgart in 1970. She is Portuguese and lives and works in New York. Leitão graduated in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Art of the University of Lisbon and completed her Master of Fine Art Degree at Hunter College, Cuny, New York. >Learn More
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Ruy LEITÃO (1949-1976)
Ruy Leitão was born in Washington DC in 1949. As the son of the painter Menez his contact with the art world began very early on, particularly with painting and drawing. >Learn More
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Fernando LEMOS (1926)
Fernando Lemos, born in Lisbon in 1926, currently resides in São Paulo, Brazil. He studied at the School of Decorative Arts António Arroio and participated in a free course at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes... >Learn More
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Aureliano LIMA (1916-1984)
Sculptor, draftsman, medalist, and Portuguese poet, Aureliano Lima, an autodidact, made his first appearance in the art world in the 1940s after many professions (as a pharmacy assistant and prison clerk, amongst others). >Learn More
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José LOUREIRO (1961)
Loureiro was born in Mangualde in 1961. He graduated from ESBAL in 1987, and began to exhibit in group shows. His early pieces, chosen for solo exhibitions, particularly those after 1990... >Learn More
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Diogo de MACEDO (1889-1959)
Diogo Cândido de Macedo was born in 1889 in Gaia. He died in 1959 in Lisbon.
Macedo took his first steps in sculpture under the guidance of Fernandes Caldas who taught him the rudiments of drawing... >Learn More
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Teresa MAGALHÃES (1944)
Teresa Magalhães was born in Lisbon in 1944. She attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, completing her degree in Painting in 1970. >Learn More
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Abel MANTA (1888-1982)
Abel Manta was born in 1888 in Gouveia. He died in Lisbon in 1982.
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Bernardo MARQUES (1898-1962)
Bernardo Marques was born in Silves, Portugal (died Lisbon, 1962), to a wealthy family that gave him the opportunity of a university education. >Learn More
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Ofélia MARQUES (1902-1952)
Born in Lisbon in 1902, Ofélia Gonçalves Pereira da Cruz studied German Philology. >Learn More
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Jorge MARTINS (1940)
Jorge Martins was born in Lisbon in 1940. He attended courses in Painting and Architecture at the Escola de Belas-Artes (1957-61) and immigrated to Paris in 1961, an odyssey typical of his generation. >Learn More
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MENEZ (1926-1995)
Granddaughter of General Oscar Carmona, Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca was born in Lisbon in the year of 1926. She died in this same city in 1995. >Learn More
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Graça MORAIS (1948)
Deeply rooted in her rural lifestyle, Graça Morais’s work is characterised by the search for a universe that is more than just personal, it is the search for a Portugal that is almost lost.
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Rui MOREIRA (1971)
Rui Moreira, one of the emerging artists at the end of the 90s, was born in Oporto in 1971.
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Eduardo NERY (1938)
Eduardo Nery was born on the 2nd of September, 1938, in Figueira da Foz. At the age of one he moved to Lisbon, where he later completed a degree in painting at the ESBAL. >Learn More
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José Luís NETO (1966)
The work of José Luís Neto (born 1966 in Viseu, Portugal) has become noticeable as representing a counter-current in recent Portuguese photography (particularly that from the 90s) by creating a kind of “poetic technology” that allies science and the art of photography with their various reflections on the nature of the image. >Learn More
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Carlos NOGUEIRA (1947)
Carlos Nogueira was born in Mozambique in 1947. He studied Sculpture at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes of Oporto and was awarded a painting diploma from the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes of Lisbon. >Learn More
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Luís NORONHA DA COSTA (1942)
In 1980 when José-Augusto França stated that Luís Noronha da Costa was one of the two greatest Portuguese painters of the second half of the 20th century (the other being Joaquim Rodrigo), the artist (born Lisbon, 1942) was at the high point of his career. >Learn More
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Paulo NOZOLINO (1955)
Commonly viewed as the most influential Portuguese photographer, especially in the 80s, Paulo Nozolino (born in Lisbon in 1955) constructs his work according to his recurring travels. >Learn More
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João ONOFRE (1976)
João Onofre was born in Lisbon in 1976, where he now continues to live and work. >Learn More
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Miguel PALMA (1964)
Miguel Palma was born in Lisbon in 1964. He studied at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (School of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon) from 1984 to 1986. >Learn More
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António PALOLO (1946-2000)
João António Palolo was born in 1946 in Évora, Portugal. A self taught artist, he conducted his first artistic experiments at a young age in his native city, with the artists Joaquim Bravo, Álvaro Lapa and António Charrua. >Learn More
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António PEDRO (1909-1966)
António Pedro was born on the 9th of December 1909 in Praia, Cape Verde, he attended both the Faculdade de Direito and the Faculdade de Letras in Lisbon. >Learn More
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Graça PEREIRA COUTINHO (1949)
Pereira Coutinho was born in Lisbon in 1949. Her grandfather, an aviator, played an important role in the formation of the young Graça extensive imagination of space. >Learn More
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Costa PINHEIRO (1932)
António Costa Pinheiro was born in Moura, 1932, in a decade that would foster the artistic and cultural revolution that Portugal would experience in the 60s: “The Second Decade of Instauration”, in other words, the most decisive years in the national artistic scene that would break the vicious cycle into which the 20s and 30s had fallen after the modernist revolutions of the 1910s. >Learn More
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Jorge PINHEIRO (1931)
Jorge Pinheiro was born in Coimbra, Portugal in 1931. Only after earning a commercial degree did he enroll in the Escola de Belas-Artes do Porto, completing his academic training in 1963. >Learn More
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PIRES VIEIRA (1950)
Pires Vieira was born in Oporto in 1950. He studied Architecture at the School of Fine Art of Paris and Urban studies at the Faculty of Vincennes.
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Júlio POMAR (1926)
Born in Lisbon in 1926, Pomar attended the Decorative Arts School António Arroio up until 1941. He held his first exhibition in his studio a year later. >Learn More
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Vítor POMAR (1949)
Vítor Pomar was born in Lisbon in 1949. He studied at the Escola de Belas-Artes in Oporto and in Lisbon from 1966 to 1967. >Learn More
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Sérgio POMBO (1947)
Sérgio Pombo was born in 1947 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. >Learn More
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Cândido PORTINARI (1903-1962)
Cândido Portinari was born in 1903 on a coffee plantation close to the small city of Brodowski in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. | | | |
