Escritor e artista plástico, José Sobral de Almada Negreiros nasceu em S. Tomé e Príncipe a 7 de Abril de 1893. Foi um dos fundadores da revista Orpheu(1915), veículo de introdução do modernismo em Portugal, onde conviveu de perto com Fernando Pessoa. Além da literatura e da pintura a óleo, Almada desenvolveu ainda composições coreográficas para ballet. Trabalhou em tapeçaria, gravura, pintura mural, caricatura, mosaico, azulejo e vitral.
Faleceu a 15 de Junho de 1970 no Hospital de S. Luís dos Franceses, em Lisboa, no mesmo quarto onde morrera seu amigo Fernando Pessoa.
As duas orientações de busca e criação de Almada Negreiros foram a beleza e a sabedoria. Para ele "a beleza não podia ser ignorante e idiota tal como a sabedoria não podia s
Ana Maria Guerra bore Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to José António Junqueiro Júnior, a supply trader and farmer. Ana died when Abilio was only three years old.
He made secondary studies in Bragança and at sixteen, he enrolled at the University of Coimbra, to study theology. Two years later, he left to study law, that he concluded in 1873. Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, and later of Viana do Castelo. In 1878, he was elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1885, he at Porto published A velhice do Padre Eterno, which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church. After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated, he was involved in the political debate in 1891, writing
One of the greatest portuguese poets and painters. A convict surrealist who introduced the Cadavre Exquis in Portugal, also known for being an excentric and bohemian artist. In France Cesariny met André Breton and founded the group "Os Surrealistas" with other portuguese artists such as António Maria Lisboa, Risques Pereira, Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, Pedro Oom, Fernando José Francisco and Mário Henrique Leiria.
Cesário Verde (February 25, 1855 – July 19, 1886) was a 19th-century Portuguese poet. His work, while mostly ignored during his lifetime and not well known outside of the country’s borders even today, is generally considered to be amongst the most important in Portuguese poetry and is widely taught in schools. This is partly due to his being championed by many other authors after his death, notably Fernando Pessoa.
Cesário Verde is frequently hailed as both one of Portugal’s finest urban poets and one of the country’s greatest describers of the countryside. Thus, Verde’s poems (always written in the alexandrine structure) are mostly split into “city poems” and “countryside poems” (the few that escape these two categories dealing with love, o
