Wednesday, November 18, 2020 – ANOTHER DISCOVERY FROM A LITTLE KNOWN ARTIST

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Wednesday,  November 18, 2020

OUR 213th ISSUE

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AMADEO DE SOUZA

CARDOSO

PORTUGUESE ARTIST

Born 14 November 1887 Mancelos, Amarante, Portugal Died 25 October 1918 (aged 30) Espinho, Portugal Nationality Portuguese Known for Painting Movement Futurism, Modernism

The leap of the rabbit
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Date: 1911
Style: Expressionism Genre: animal painting
Media: oil
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was born in Manhufe (Amarante) and died in Espinho, north of Portugal. In 1906, he left for Paris where he began working as a draughtsman and caricaturist. He became acquainted with frontline artists such as Modigliani, Brancusi, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Sónia and Robert Delaunay, among others.
In 1913 he integrated the famous exhibition Armory Show in New York and exhibited in Galeria Der Sturm, in Berlin. Amadeo was among the most commercially successful exhibitors at the Armory Show, as he sold seven of the eight works he showed there.
Amadeo met with Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona in 1914, and then left for Madrid, where the shock of World War I was already underway. He then returned to Portugal where he married Lucie Meynardi Peccetto. He maintained contact with many of the most prominent Portuguese artists and poets such as Almada Negreiros, Santa-Rita Pintor and Teixeira de Pascoaes.
Between 1915 and 1916 he became friends with the Sonia and Robert Delaunay who sought exile in Portugal and, by this time, he became an active member of the Portuguese avant-garde group Orpheu . During this period he exhibited in Lisbon and in Porto. In his oeuvre, there are evident influences of artistic movements emerging during this time, such as cubism, dadaism, abstractionism and expressionism.
On October 25, 1918, at the age of 30, he died in Espinho, of Spanish flu.
Even considering his very short life span, Souza-Cardoso was an artist who left an indelible milestone on the history of modern art in Portugal, thanks to his committed and prolific activity, as well as his embrace of the fresh ideas in the art scene of the time, having been inspired by many of the leading art movements of his time.

Stronghold Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
Date: 1912; Portugal Style: Cubism Genre: landscape Media: oil

Untitled (boats)
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
1913; Portugal
Cubism
marina
: wood

Corpus Christi procession Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Date: 1913 Style: Cubism Genre: genre painting Media: oil

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EDITORIAL

While watching “ANTIQUES ROADSHOW”  I saw the art of Amadeo  de Souza Cardoso.
An artist of the early 20th century, He exhibited at the famed Armory show in New York in 1913. Enjoy his brilliant use of color.  (The pieces on Antiques Roadshow were worth over $100,000.)  He died at the age of 30 in the 1918 influenza pandemic.

WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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TUESDAY’S PHOTO OF THE DAY
Wayne Thiebaud

On November 15, Wayne Thiebaud, the cherished American painter of cakes and sweets, hits an impressive milestone: his 100th birthday. Born November 1920 in Mesa, Arizona, and raised in California, Thiebaud remains busy and productive even on the eve of his centenary.
We featured the delicious art of Wayne Thiebaud in August.  
Laura Hussey guessed correctly

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