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Graça Morais
Graça Morais Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, GOIH (born 1948) is a Portuguese people, Portuguese artist. A member of the ' (National Academy of Fine Arts) of Portugal, she was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry in 1997. She is married to the musician Pedro Caldeira Cabral. Early life and education Maria da Graça Pinto de Almeida Morais was born on 17 March 1948 in the small village of Vieiro, in Freixiel, in the Trás-os-Montes region of northeast Portugal. She was the daughter of Alda Pinto and Jaime Morais, the second of six children. In 1957 and 1958 she lived in Portuguese Mozambique, Mozambique, which is where her parents gave her a first box of watercolour paints. She first experimented with oil painting in 1964, copying paintings by Gustave Courbet. Morais attended schools in Vila Flor and Bragança, Portugal, Bragança before entering the ' (School of Fine Arts of Porto - ESBAP) in 1971, where she studied painting. In 1971 she married , who was on the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trás-os-Montes
Trás-os-Montes () is a geographical, historical and cultural region of Portugal. Portuguese for "behind the mountains", Trás-os-Montes is located northeast of the country in an upland area, landlocked by the Douro and Tâmega rivers to south and west and by the Spanish communities of Galicia and Castile and León to the north and east. This relative isolation has led to the survival of cultural traditions that mark the Portuguese identity. On the other hand, its extreme continentality also contributed to the lack of development, which led its inhabitants to seek for better conditions on the coast or emigrate to other European countries such as France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and to Brazil. History Geography The name of Trás-os-Montes refers to the location to the east of mountains such as Marão, Alvão and Gerês, which separate the interior from the coast, and which form a valley around the Douro River. These natural barriers have kept this region of Portugal depo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
