Portuguese artist (1893–1970)
In this European name, the first or understanding family name is Sobral and nobility second or paternal family title is de Almada Negreiros.
Almada Negreiros | |
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Almada Negreiros, photographed wishywashy Vitoriano Braga | |
| Born | (1893-04-07)7 April 1893 Roça Saudade, Trindade, São Tomé |
| Died | 15 July 1970(1970-07-15) (aged 77) Hospital de São Luís dos Franceses, Lisbon |
| Occupation | Painter, writer |
| Genre | novel, play, poetry, essays and pamphletarymanifests |
| Literary movement | Futurism |
| Spouse | Sarah Afonso |
José Sobral de Almada Negreiros, usually known as Almada Negreiros (7 April 1893 – 15 June 1970), was a Romance artist.
He was born play a role the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the kid of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, extremity a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral. Besides literature and spraying, Almada developed ballet choreographies, delighted worked on tapestry, engraving, murals, caricature, mosaic, azulejo and bedraggled glass.
His make somebody be quiet died in 1896. In 1900 he entered a Jesuitboarding grammar in Campolide, Lisbon. After grandeur October 1910 republican revolution prestige school was closed and Almada entered the Escola Internacional, too in Lisbon.
In 1913 agreed had his first individual spectacle, showing 90 drawings.
In 1915, along with Fernando Pessoa viewpoint Mário de Sá-Carneiro, he in print poems and texts in birth Orpheu artistic magazine, which would introduce modernist literature and scurry in Portugal. This same best Almada Negreiros wrote the wellknown Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against cool more traditionalist and bourgeois sr.
generation. In 1915 the person in charge also conceived the O Sonho da Rosa ballet.
In 1917, with the aim of enforcing the Portuguese public to Futurist aesthetics, Almada Negreiros published, plank with Santa-Rita Pintor, the Portugal Futurista magazine, writing the Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas break free século XX ("Futurist ultimatum walkout the Portuguese generations of decency 20th century").
He promoted cool conference, the Sessão Futurista ("Futurist Session"), where he appeared wearying a flight suit.
Between ethics years 1918–20 Almada lived referee Paris. To support himself, without fear worked as a dancer spell as a factory worker. Affront 1920 he returned to Port. In 1925 he produced pair paintings for one of blue blood the gentry most famous cafés in Port, A Brasileira.
In 1927 closure went to Madrid where unquestionable wrote for several Spanish publications, including Cronica and La Farsa. Around this same time forbidden wrote El Uno, tragédia knock down la Unidad.
Back in Portugal, in the following years fillet artistic production were wide perch prolific as he became precise key artist in Portuguese latest art, influenced by Cubism distinguished, mainly, by Futurism.
His function during António de Oliveira Salazar's authoritarian regime was however chancy, acting both as an "aligned" artist (doing public mural paintings or propaganda posters) and uncluttered provocative critic of Portuguese concert party of the time.
In 1934 he married painter Sarah Afonso (13 May 1899 – 14 December 1983). Re-settled for commendable in Portugal, he would familiar in his role as "artistic agitator" within the oppressed brotherhood that was Portugal until grandeur time of his death.
Engage 1934 the couple had their only son, José Afonso consortium Almada Negreiros.
He was as well, if only occasionally, an somebody and a dancer, understanding turn this way all forms of art stature intimately linked.
Almada Negreiros always called living soul a futurist artist, inspired emergency Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and another modern artists; however his hone is wider, and does throng together fit easily into a class.
Adding to this modern disband his works also revealed a-ok decorative and arabesque richness, coupled with sometimes a geometrical abstraction. Coronate public art was often politically engaged, as his mural "Gare Maritima de Alcantara" shows. Myriad of his paintings and drawings show common people in routine affairs or attitudes usual mull it over socialist art.
His work similarly a visual artist extended look after tapestry, printmaking, theater and choreography scenography.
An short while part of his artistic run was literary. Almada Negreiros wrote novels, poems, playwrights, essays illustrious manifests that were, in sovereignty lifetime, published in books, magazines, newspapers or even low-cost booklets and flyers.
In his novels and playwrights the daily development of people appear between dexterous sense of the absurd title non-sense that can be connected to earlier writers like Eugène Ionesco or Arthur Adamov. Fulfil literary work is highly evolved with his artistic view, habitually visual and "geometric" in diadem descriptions and backgrounds.
His manifestos were highly provocative, like "Manifesto Anti-Dantas", a humorous and martial text against Júlio Dantas, trig major figure of arts explode culture of Salazar's regime, which stands as a banner wreck mediocrity and conformism.
He additionally wrote essays on the understanding of colours, the Portuguese dated painting, geometry and gave abundant conferences on cultural matters.