António Pedro

António Pedro da Costa (Portuguese Cape Verde, Santiago, Praia, 9 December 1909 – Caminha, Moledo, Portugal, 17 August 1966) was a Portuguese painter, potter, journalist and writer.

He was born to a prominent colonial family from the Cape Verde Islands, son of José Maria da Costa (b. Lisbon, c. 1870) and wife Elizabeth Savage de Paula Rosa. However his maternal grandmother was Irish and English, and he cited this influence of the "Celtic spirit" as an influence in his work. In addition because his family spoke English, and sent their children to English schools, he was able to work as a journalist with the BBC in London between 1944 and 1945.

He moved to Portugal when he was four. Later he attended Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon for two years and afterwards attended Nunu Álvares Institude, Companhia de Jesus in A Guarda, Galicia, Spain, his sixth year was in Santarém, Coimbra's lyceum during his seventh year where whe wrote the journal O Bicho. He attended the University of Lisbon, having attended at the Faculty of Directors[1] and Letters and did not finished his courses. He lived in Paris between 1934 and 1935 and went to study at the Institute of Arts and Archaeology at the University of Sorbonne where he signed the Manifeste Dimensioniste (Dimensionist Manifest).

He was one of the introducers of Surrealism in Portuguese painting, in the late 1930s. Its official start is set to be the exposition he held with António Dacosta and Pamela Boden in Lisbon in 1940.[2]

Afterwards, he visited Brazil in 1941 and exhibited his paintings in the then capital city of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.[3]

Pedro paintings show the influence of the great surrealist painters, like Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. He was a founding member of the Portuguese Surrealist Group, in 1947, but he left painting short time after.

He dedicated himself to pottery and theater for the rest of his life. His theatrical apprearances included the Teatro Apolo (Apollo Theatre) in Lisbon in 1949 and at the Teatro Experimental do Porto (Porto Experimental Theatre) in 1953 and in 1961

He was also a Freemason and an active anti-fascist militant.

He married Maria Manuela Possante, without issue.

Literary works

Poetic works

Other works

Potteries, paintings and other plastic works

References

  1. ↑ Queirós, Luís Miguel (22 September 2010). "António Pedro Um experimentador compulsivo". Publico. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
  2. ↑ António Pedro at the José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Center in Lisbon (English) Archived July 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Almeida, Paulo Mendes de. De Anita ao Museu. p. 168.

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