• 1999
  • Paper
  • Watercolour
  • Inv. 99DP1753

João Queiroz

S/ Título [Untitled]

As so many other painters, João Queiroz found in aquarelle a visual freedom and a performative speed not permitted by either oil or acrylic. The vigour and vivacity afforded by this technique adapts almost organically to the artist's pictorial evolution and to his intent of transposing to paper not the descriptive or analytic instant of a landscape exercise, but rather the aesthetic fruit of his sensorial experience of nature – with no interest whatsoever in lines or geometrical and geographical forms.

 

Taking profit from the aqueous constitution of aquarelle, Queiroz reworks his perception of the natural world by diluting the strident luminosity and the vibration of colours within a disordered surface, in the apparent chaos of a living organism visually created to pulse with the same primordial energy which the painter finds in nature. However, despite the gestualist and abstract outlook of this aquarelle, the glorious and dismal movements of the dim blues dominate this non-narrative space in such a way that it seems to echo at a distance the epic composition Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), a Romantic painting by J. M. W. Turner with identical spatial arrangement and rhythmic intensity.

 

 

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November 2011

 

 

TypeValueUnitSection
Height70cm
Width100cm
Typedate
Text1999
Positionupper right corner
Typesignature
TextJoão Queiroz
Positionupper right corner 
TypeAcquisition
DateSeptember 1999
Densidade Relativa
Lisboa, CAM/FCG, 2005
ISBN:972-635-169-x
Exhibiton catalogue
Densidade Relativa
CAM/FCG
Curator: Leonor Nazaré
27 October 2005 to 22 January 2006
CAM, Hall and Level 1
12 August to 26 November 2006
Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes and Centro das Artes de Sines
Exposição Permanente do CAM
CAM/FCG
Curator: Jorge Molder
18 July 2008 to 4 January 2009
CAM
Updated on 23 january 2015

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