Surrealism At The Cupertino De Miranda Foundation

By definition,  cadavre exquis is a type of collaborative writing or drawing, where a piece of paper is handed out folded to another person, without that person being aware of what has been drawn or written, so that they can freely continue the composition of images or words.

Even with the end of the surrealist movement, Mário Cesariny continued to develop a brilliant career, becoming a promoter and sponsor of several exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.

A painter and poet, his extensive work includes surrealist objects. He lived in Angola and fell in love with ethnography and African art, which inspired part of his work. He was a cultural promoter and collector, and contributed to the growth of the Museum's collection.

Julio was considered one of the first artists to introduce surrealist imagery in Portugal, along with António Pedro and António Dacosta, because of a trip he made to Paris where he was exposed to this aesthetics.

Photographer, illustrator, poet, designer, professor and artistic director of various cultural institutions. Despite joining the surrealist movement (1949), he left Portugal due to his opposition to Salazar’s dictatorial regime, finally settling in São Paulo.

On a trip to the Berlengas Islands, accompanied by Marcelino Vespeira, Berlengas began to do oil paintings and revealed his abstractive tendencies. In photography, he used the manipulation of negatives, solarisation, superimposition, double exposure, among other typically surrealist techniques.

He portrayed intellectuals, artists and other personalities, most of whom were persecuted by the International and State Defense Police (PIDE). During his exile in Brazil, he reunited with some of them.