Sculpture

Vieira, Jorge1982/1982

Museu do Caramulo
Caramulo, Portugal

Details

Title: Sculpture
Creator: Vieira, Jorge
Creator Lifespan: 1922/1998
Creator Gender: Male
Date: 1982/1982
Technique/Material: Bronze
Physical Dimensions: w25.9 x h53.2 x d25.2 cm (Entire)
Exhibition: Caramulo, Portugal
Donated by:: The artist
Description: A noted pioneer of sculptural abstractionism in Portugal, who, as early as 1948, was already producing biomorphic and eroticising terracotta pieces with suggestions of surrealism, Jorge Vieira was the most important Portuguese sculptor of the 1950s. In his early work, there are reminiscences of archaic and ancient sculpture, Neoclassicism, Surrealism and Abstractionism, as well as suggestions of the guiding influences of Picasso, Henry Moore, Reg Butler and Lynn Chadwick, leading from the late 1940s onwards to an imagery of hybrid creatures, a mixture of man and animal, a genuinely personal bestiary that was full of humour and became a particularly consistent feature of his work from the 1970s onwards. This sculpture is a continuation of that production, depicting, through an evident axiality, a creature with an enormous head, in a threadlike, bipartite oval shape, in which one can detect the anthropomorphising features of the miniscule eyes, long nose and closed, inexpressive mouth. Contrasting with such a primitivist stylisation, two solid legs are also projected in an axial fashion and support the piece, in a diverse formal treatment that reinforces the signs of the human without ceasing to penetrate in humoristic terms into the realms of the fantastic.
Type: Sculpture
Rights: Museu do Caramulo

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