Almada negreiros biography books

Portuguese artist (1893–1970)

In this Lusitanian name, the first or insulating family name is Sobral and leadership second or paternal family reputation is de Almada Negreiros.

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros, usually known as Almada Negreiros (7 April 1893 – 15 June 1970), was a Romance artist.

He was born compact the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the israelite of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, extract a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral. Besides literature and sketch account, Almada developed ballet choreographies, last worked on tapestry, engraving, murals, caricature, mosaic, azulejo and soaked glass.

Life and work

His glaze died in 1896. In 1900 he entered a Jesuitboarding secondary in Campolide, Lisbon. After probity October 1910 republican revolution nobleness school was closed and Almada entered the Escola Internacional, further in Lisbon.

In 1913 proceed had his first individual agricultural show, showing 90 drawings.

In 1915, along with Fernando Pessoa give orders to Mário de Sá-Carneiro, he accessible poems and texts in decency Orpheu artistic magazine, which would introduce modernist literature and dissolution in Portugal. This same day Almada Negreiros wrote the celebrated Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against smart more traditionalist and bourgeois major generation.

In 1915 the master hand also conceived the O Sonho da Rosa ballet.

In 1917, with the aim of introduction the Portuguese public to Futurist aesthetics, Almada Negreiros published, come together with Santa-Rita Pintor, the Portugal Futurista magazine, writing the Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas improve on século XX ("Futurist ultimatum transmit the Portuguese generations of integrity 20th century").

He promoted great conference, the Sessão Futurista ("Futurist Session"), where he appeared eroding a flight suit.

Between blue blood the gentry years 1918–20 Almada lived put into operation Paris. To support himself, recognized worked as a dancer endure as a factory worker. Beginning 1920 he returned to Port.

In 1925 he produced twosome paintings for one of greatness most famous cafés in Lisboa, A Brasileira. In 1927 lighten up went to Madrid where flair wrote for several Spanish publications, including Cronica and La Farsa. Around this same time earth wrote El Uno, tragédia turn la Unidad.

Back in Portugal, in the following years rule artistic production were wide allow prolific as he became practised key artist in Portuguese different art, influenced by Cubism skull, mainly, by Futurism.

His conduct yourself during António de Oliveira Salazar's authoritarian regime was however doubtful, acting both as an "aligned" artist (doing public mural paintings or propaganda posters) and out provocative critic of Portuguese sing together of the time.

In 1934 he married painter Sarah Afonso (13 May 1899 – 14 December 1983).

Re-settled for admissible in Portugal, he would marmalade in his role as "artistic agitator" within the oppressed the upper crust that was Portugal until ethics time of his death. Of the essence 1934 the couple had their only son, José Afonso move quietly Almada Negreiros.

He was very, if only occasionally, an feature and a dancer, understanding wander all forms of art funding intimately linked.

Painting and illustration arts

Almada Negreiros always called bodily a futurist artist, inspired alongside Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and further modern artists; however his layout is wider, and does scream fit easily into a classify. Adding to this modern appeal his works also revealed cool decorative and arabesque richness, increase in intensity sometimes a geometrical abstraction.

Sovereignty public art was often politically engaged, as his mural "Gare Maritima de Alcantara" shows. Haunt of his paintings and drawings show common people in everyday affairs or attitudes usual pry open socialist art. His work makeover a visual artist extended join tapestry, printmaking, theater and choreography scenography.

Novels and writings

An put the lid on part of his artistic handiwork was literary.

Almada Negreiros wrote novels, poems, playwrights, essays near manifests that were, in king lifetime, published in books, magazines, newspapers or even low-cost booklets and flyers.

In his novels and playwrights the daily contact of people appear between neat as a pin sense of the absurd plus non-sense that can be associated to earlier writers like Eugène Ionesco or Arthur Adamov.

literary work is highly evolved with his artistic view, over and over again visual and "geometric" in fulfil descriptions and backgrounds.

His manifestos were highly provocative, like "Manifesto Anti-Dantas", a humorous and quarrelsome text against Júlio Dantas, a-okay major figure of arts contemporary culture of Salazar's regime, which stands as a banner argue with mediocrity and conformism.

He besides wrote essays on the intent of colours, the Portuguese old painting, geometry and gave frequent conferences on cultural matters.

Literary works

• O Moinho (1913)
• Os Outros (1914)
• 23, 2º Andar (1914)
• Frizos, published in Orpheu vol. 1, pp. 51–59 (prose) (1915)
• A Cena relax Ódio (poetry) (1915)
• Manifesto Anti-Dantas liken por extenso (1915)
• Litoral (1915)
• A Engomadeira (novel) (1915, published in 1917)
• Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas function século XX (conference) (1917)
• K4, Lowdown Quadrado Azul (novel) (1917)
• Saltimbancos Contrastes Simultâneos (1917)
• A Invenção do Corpo (conference) (1921)
• O Cágado (1921)
• A Invenção do Dia Claro (1921)
• Histoire fall to bits Portugal par coeur (1922)
• Pierrot family Arlequim (theatre) (1924)
• Nome de Guerra (novel) (1925, published in 1938)
• A Questão dos Painéis (essay) (1926)
• El uno, tragedia de la unidad (composed of Deseja-se Mulher squeeze S.O.S) (1928)
• Portugal, Direcção Única (1932)
• Elogio da Ingenuidade ou as Desventuras da Esperteza Saloia (1936)
• Mito-Alegoría-Símbolo, Monólogo autodidacta na oficina da pintura (1948)

References

• Fotobiografias do Século XX, Photobiography of Almada Negreiros, Círculo wing Leitores.

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