In the history of art, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Amadeo de Souza Cardoso as Portuguese artist (1887-1918).
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was born at Mancelos in 1887. His recorded nationality is Portugal.
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He worked as caricaturist, painter and artist.
His recorded movement is modernism and impressionism.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Portugal shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso died in 1918, aged 31. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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- Movement: modernism and Impressionism
