In the first of a series of guest posts, Katia Weber selects the Portguese artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. If you would like to make a submission to the site, please click here for more information.
Amedeo de Souza Cardoso in 1913Amadeo de Souza Cardoso is a well known painter in Portugal although not internationally. Information on his work and life, can be found here. A major exhibition was held at Centro de Art Moderna – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in 2008 “Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso – Diálogo de Vanguardas”, followed by a Catalogue Raisonné (ISBN 978-972-635-203-7). I saw it, it was wonderful.
"Les Cavaliers" 1913Amadeo Souza-Cardoso belonged to a time and generation considered the most rebellious and innovative of Portuguese art history: along with Almada Negreiros (painter, poet; Sarah Afonso husband), Santa-Rita Pintor (painter), Fernando Pessoa (poet), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (writer). Almost of them died young (some in tragic conditions). His paintings are at:
- Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Note: Amadeo produced a wonderful hand-made copy, with illustrations, of Flaubert Tale “La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier”, during the time Amadeo was in Bretagne, France, in 1916. You can see some of his illustrations here.
- Katia Weber.
"Portrait of Francisco Cardoso" 1912
"Saut du Lapin" 1911
"Procissão Corpus Christi" 1913
"Entrada" 1917
"Cabeça" 1913
"Composition"
"Barcos"
"Maquina de Escrever" 1917
"Clown cavalo salamandra" 1911-1912
"A Casita Clara - paisagem" 1916
"Pintura" 1917
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10 comments:
Me parece un autor maravilloso, no sabría con cual de sus cuadros quedarme,quizás la procesión de Corpus sea uno de los que más me gustan
some really fun pieces in here! thanks for introducing me to a new artist. I'll have to get digging for more info on him on my own now.
A bit derivative but wonderful
all the same. I think he improves
on the Fauves and the Cubists of
his time period.
Thanks Katia and artinconnu - I had never heard of Cardoso before today, and now I'm delighted to have seen his works.
What wonderful use of colour, I love it! It really reminds me of the vibrant colour you see in modern street and ephemeral art.
Keep up the great work!
Kind Regards
H Niyazi
Three Pipe Problem
http://3pipe.net
Dear Art Inconnu
Thank you for posting my contribution on your wonderful blog. Thank you also for adding the slideshow of Amadeo life and works in the end. All the best, Katia Weber
Thanks for the comments..and of course Katia!
Je suis ravie de voir un peintre de mon pays!
C'est un des grands peintres de cette époque, avec Santa Rita Pintor et Almada, mais lui -pour moi- est le plus grand!
Merci, merci encore.
Connaissez-vous cet autre inconnu: Manuel d'Assumpção? Plus jeune,de la genération suivante (ou même plus jeune -je l'ai encore connu) il s'est suicidé à paris.
Il est très bon et très méconnu...
M.J.F.
I’m glad to see that Amadeo pleases you. In Portugal, he became famous by saying he followed no school. Once he was not interested in developing an avant-garde movement in particular, he preferred to combine them all the time, in all the pictures, using several techniques. That’s why he approaches analytic cubism, but re-mains still colourful, somehow influenced by Sonia and Robert Delaunay. His lunatic faces remind the anger of expressionism and his coloured circles dialogue with ab-stractionism. One of the most amazing aspects about his paintings is the way he allies a geometric form and a pointillist brush stroke. In his last works, the incorporation of glass on canvas is also quite remarkable.
While living in Paris, his greatest friend was the namesake Modigliani, with whom he shared an exhibition in 1911. According to his daughter, Amedeo Modidigliani wept as a child when he heard Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso had died in Portugal, at the age of thirty. He also met Picasso, Brancusi, Archipenko, Otto Fre-undlich, several Russian and futurist artists, and lived in the same building as Gertrude Stein.
From 1914 until 1918, he returned to Portugal and nearly collaborated in Fernando Pessoa’s Orpheu review. However, the third number of Orpheu was never published due to financial issues.
But there is still so much to say…
Here you can see 200 works (including paintings and sketches):
http://www.cam.gulbenkian.pt/index.php?headline=27&visual=2&langId=1&ngs=1&pesquisar=1&autor=Amadeo%20de%20Souza-Cardoso
Photos of him, his wife and his friends:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/sets/72157606333411411/
You can watch a video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9TjvHXG1F0
And a blog I’ve recently created. The information is still in Portuguese, but I want to translate it as soon as possible:
http://amadeodesouzacardoso.blogspot.com/
Thanks ASC, very informative.
And congratulations for your wonderful blog!
I've now realised the video I suggested is the one you have already chosen for the slideshow. And I forgot to mentioned that Amadeo can also be followed on facebook.
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