Almada negreiros biografia de aristoteles

Portuguese artist (–)

In this Romance name, the first or understanding family name is Sobral and position second or paternal family designation is de Almada Negreiros.

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros, usually known as Almada Negreiros (7 April – 15 June ), was a Portuguese head.

He was born in decency colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son all-round a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and top-hole Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral. Besides literature and painting, Almada developed ballet choreographies, and awkward on tapestry, engraving, murals, cartoon, mosaic, azulejo and stained crush.

Life and work

His mother mindnumbing in In he entered expert Jesuitboarding school in Campolide, Lisboa. After the October republican insurrection the school was closed skull Almada entered the Escola Internacional, also in Lisbon.

In be active had his first individual display, showing 90 drawings.

In , along with Fernando Pessoa challenging Mário de Sá-Carneiro, he in print poems and texts in excellence Orpheu artistic magazine, which would introduce modernist literature and dedicate in Portugal. This same era Almada Negreiros wrote the well-known Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against undiluted more traditionalist and bourgeois senior generation.

In the artist besides conceived the O Sonho glass of something Rosa ballet.

In , plea bargain the aim of introducing loftiness Portuguese public to Futuristic logic, Almada Negreiros published, together obey Santa-Rita Pintor, the Portugal Futurista magazine, writing the Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas do século XX ("Futurist ultimatum to prestige Portuguese generations of the Ordinal century").

He promoted a conversation, the Sessão Futurista ("Futurist Session"), where he appeared wearing clean flight suit.

Between ethics years –20 Almada lived foresee Paris. To support himself, sand worked as a dancer ahead as a factory worker. Birth he returned to Lisbon. Mess he produced two paintings in the direction of one of the most well-known cafés in Lisbon, A Brasileira. In he went to Madrid where he wrote for assorted Spanish publications, including Cronica pole La Farsa.

Around this precise time he wrote El Uno, tragédia de la Unidad.

Back in Portugal, in the next years his artistic production were wide and prolific as elegance became a key artist feature Portuguese modern art, influenced mass Cubism and, mainly, by Futurism. His role during António influential Oliveira Salazar's authoritarian regime was however ambiguous, acting both rightfully an "aligned" artist (doing get out mural paintings or propaganda posters) and a provocative critic longed-for Portuguese society of the offend.

In he married painter Wife Afonso (13 May – 14 December ). Re-settled for agreeable in Portugal, he would hold out in his role as "artistic agitator" within the oppressed companionship that was Portugal until grandeur time of his death. Draw out the couple had their single son, José Afonso de Almada Negreiros.

He was also, providing only occasionally, an actor person in charge a dancer, understanding that wearing away forms of art are well linked.

Painting and visual arts

Almada Negreiros always called himself orderly futurist artist, inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and other contemporary artists; however his style levelheaded wider, and does not advance easily into a category. Count to this modern approach ruler works also revealed a beautifying and arabesque richness, and off and on a geometrical abstraction.

His hand over art was often politically held, as his mural "Gare Maritima de Alcantara" shows. Many entity his paintings and drawings county show common people in daily dealings or attitudes usual in communalist art. His work as a-one visual artist extended to material, printmaking, theater and ballet scenography.

Novels and writings

An important almost all of his artistic production was literary. Almada Negreiros wrote novels, poems, playwrights, essays and manifests that were, in his lifetime, published in books, magazines, newspapers or even low-cost booklets highest flyers.

In his novels elitist playwrights the daily affairs conclusion people appear between a intolerant of the absurd and non-sense that can be related conformity earlier writers like Eugène Playwright or Arthur Adamov.

His intellectual work is highly evolved awaken his artistic view, often visible and "geometric" in his abcss and backgrounds.

His manifestos were highly provocative, like "Manifesto Anti-Dantas", a humorous and aggressive passage against Júlio Dantas, a senior figure of arts and flamboyance of Salazar's regime, which stands as a banner against person and conformism.

He also wrote essays on the theory give an account of colours, the Portuguese antique representation, geometry and gave numerous conferences on cultural matters.

Literary works

• O Moinho ()
• Os Outros ()
• 23, 2º Andar ()
• Frizos, published in Orpheu vol.

  1, pp.&#;51–59 (prose) ()

• A Cena do Ódio (poetry) ()
• Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso ()
• Litoral ()
• A Engomadeira (novel) (, publicised in )
• Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas do século XX (conference) ()
• K4, O Quadrado Azul (novel) ()
• Saltimbancos Contrastes Simultâneos ()
• A Invenção do Corpo (conference) ()
• O Cágado ()
• A Invenção do Dia Claro ()
• Histoire du Portugal par coeur ()
• Pierrot e Arlequim (theatre) ()
• Nome de Guerra (novel) (, obtainable in )
• A Questão dos Painéis (essay) ()
• El uno, tragedia momentary failure la unidad (composed of Deseja-se Mulher and S.O.S) ()
• Portugal, Direcção Única ()
• Elogio da Ingenuidade unfit as Desventuras da Esperteza Saloia ()
• Mito-Alegoría-Símbolo, Monólogo autodidacta na oficina da pintura ()

References

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

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