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- Title
Carvalho, Portrait at the crossroads of painting in Portugal (1911-1949).
- Authors
de Carvalho SERRA, Filomena Maria
- Abstract
This doctoral dissertation is based on an investigation about the practices of Portrait in painting in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century. The theme provided the opportunity to cross nearly half a century of national art, in a period extending from 1911 - a time immediately after the proclamation of the Republic and very close to "Orpheu" - to the Estado Novo regime, ending the research when the international community witnesses the end of the Second World War. This troubled chronological period is, from the aesthetic point of view, at the crossroads between those who paint portraits, continuing a genre that goes back to the academic tradition, and a new generation of artists that questions that same genre and painting itself. If on the one hand we have the conventional portrait, we also have the transgression of the genre. The portrait was the target of an interrogation about Man as well as about the country itself, both to the left and to the right of the ideological range. Almada Negreiros, the polymorphic creator, assumed from the beginning the main role of our study. In Almada, as in any other creator, the desire to redesign the construction of a New Man was reflected in the "Retrato da Pátria" (Portrait of the Motherland), which are the panels of the Maritime Station of Lisbon, the epitome of the fragilities of that utopia.
- Subjects
20TH century portrait painting; 20TH century Portuguese art; ART history
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p608
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract