Fernando Pessoa – (Júlio Artur Da Silva Pomar) Previous Next


Artist:

Date: 1988

Size: 196 x 112 cm

Museum: National Azulejo Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)

Technique: White

Following the first campaign to decorate the underground stations in Lisbon, carried out between the late 1950s and the start of the 1970s, the extension of the network as from 1988 again relied on azulejos as the privileged material to clad and decorate the large wall surfaces at the stations. In this new phase, the Metropolitano invited renowned Portuguese artists to design the full revetment of the stations and not only restricted areas as had been the case with the projects commissioned from Maria Keil (b. 1914 - d. 2012) and Rogério Ribeiro (b. 1930 – d. 2008). The work that Júlio Pomar (b. 1926) designed for Alto dos Moinhos is part of this new concept which we might call a

Artist

Download

Click here to download