wocomoCULTURE | La Petite by Eduardo Viana: a conservative approach to the modern styles | Artworks Explained @wocomoCULTURE | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
A work like "La Petite" ("The Little One") shows very clearly how living closely with Robert and Sonia Delaunay had a profound impact on the development of Viana's aesthetic experiments. His enthusiasm for the avant-garde is particularly remarkable when one considers that up to this point Viana had always painted in oils in the classical sense and accordingly preferred traditional subjects such as landscapes or still lifes.
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Eduardo Afonso Viana (1881-1967, Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter. He belongs to the first modern generation of Portuguese painting, like Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and Almada Negreiros. His attitude towards modern painting was rather conservative. The best examples of his adoption of modern styles in his work are the paintings from 1916, which are due to the influence of Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay, with whom he was friends during their stay in Portugal. In some of his best paintings, he follows the Post-Impressionist style inspired by Cézanne.
Viana's paintings were a reflection of life in his country. One of the best examples of this motif is his painting "In Revolt" from 1916, in which he depicts Portuguese life in colourful arcs. But Viana also loved nature. He had a strong attachment to naturalism. In 1917 he painted "K4: The Blue Square", which is considered a homage to Portuguese modernism, inspired by Almada Negreiros' book of the same name.
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A work like "La Petite" ("The Little One") shows very clearly how living closely with Robert and Sonia Delaunay had a profound impact on the development of Viana's aesthetic experiments. His enthusiasm for the avant-garde is particularly remarkable when one considers that up to this point Viana had always painted in oils in the classical sense and accordingly preferred traditional subjects such as landscapes or still lifes.
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Eduardo Afonso Viana (1881-1967, Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter. He belongs to the first modern generation of Portuguese painting, like Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and Almada Negreiros. His attitude towards modern painting was rather conservative. The best examples of his adoption of modern styles in his work are the paintings from 1916, which are due to the influence of Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay, with whom he was friends during their stay in Portugal. In some of his best paintings, he follows the Post-Impressionist style inspired by Cézanne.
Viana's paintings were a reflection of life in his country. One of the best examples of this motif is his painting "In Revolt" from 1916, in which he depicts Portuguese life in colourful arcs. But Viana also loved nature. He had a strong attachment to naturalism. In 1917 he painted "K4: The Blue Square", which is considered a homage to Portuguese modernism, inspired by Almada Negreiros' book of the same name.
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The Masterworks series is a treasure trove of art. Each ten-minute program focuses on an individual painting, with a rich visual survey accompanied by an authoritative voice-over commentary. The selection of works, from galleries on both sides of the Atlantic, covers a broad spectrum of art from the earliest European masterpieces to contemporary works, introducing the unfamiliar and rediscovering the well-loved.
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