Artworks
Sem Título [Untitled]
other
Date
s.d.
Technique
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
31 x 24 cm
Exhibiting with the modernists, as early as 1913, at the II Salão dos Humoristas [II Salon of the Humourists], António Soares work offers a wide chronicle of the mundane early years of the 20th century Lisbon. Such characteristics span over his entire body of work, from painting to drawing, and has a particular echo in illustration, that he practiced extensively and expressively. Like several other contemporary Portuguese authors, it was precisely in drawing that he was at his best. His sensual and elegant graphic talent captured a - poseur
world of elegant female characters.
In this watercolour, the palette offers a strong chromatic vibration, with bright oranges that frame the various greys of the woman's clothing. In this expressive composition, the seated body shows a stylized torsion. Contour lines are the dominant feature of the composition, keeping colour within its limits. Nevertheless, there is a voluptuousness in colour. His wise use of orange spreads impressive areas of light throughout the composition, while the dominant greys became luminous due to contrast. The same happens with the black lines of the contour, whose voluptuousness provide the viewer a sense of volume.
Wrapped in modern clothes, this female character looks right at us. Her make-up outlines her eyes, making them more expressive and powerful. The way she sits clearly states her social position, confirmed by her fur coat. Her mouth firmly shut stresses her gaze, somehow contradicted by the crucifix she wears. Her overall serious expression, her pale, greyish complexion, that uses the colour of the paper as her faint skin tone, completed with some patches of grey around, contributes to the character's night life bohemian modernity aura.
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world of elegant female characters.
In this watercolour, the palette offers a strong chromatic vibration, with bright oranges that frame the various greys of the woman's clothing. In this expressive composition, the seated body shows a stylized torsion. Contour lines are the dominant feature of the composition, keeping colour within its limits. Nevertheless, there is a voluptuousness in colour. His wise use of orange spreads impressive areas of light throughout the composition, while the dominant greys became luminous due to contrast. The same happens with the black lines of the contour, whose voluptuousness provide the viewer a sense of volume.
Wrapped in modern clothes, this female character looks right at us. Her make-up outlines her eyes, making them more expressive and powerful. The way she sits clearly states her social position, confirmed by her fur coat. Her mouth firmly shut stresses her gaze, somehow contradicted by the crucifix she wears. Her overall serious expression, her pale, greyish complexion, that uses the colour of the paper as her faint skin tone, completed with some patches of grey around, contributes to the character's night life bohemian modernity aura.
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