Friday, February 28, 2025

Joaquim Rodrigo
(1912–1997)

 
Joaquim José Rodrigo was a Portuguese forestry engineer and painter. Self-taught, who came to painting late, from 1951 onwards, he exhibited an incipient expressionism in Gerais, free from commitments to neo-realist aesthetics. From 1954 until the end of the decade he developed and defined a painting with a rigorous geometric awareness, greatly influenced by Mondrian.
The year 1961, however, marked a new change in his career, curiously coinciding with the American pop art movement and a new emerging figuration in Europe, of which he could not have been aware. He practiced “raw art” for five years, a practice of fixing reality in symbolic terms, of everyday experience or traveled memory.



https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Rodrigo



C7
1953
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/ArtistPieces/view/138

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