Rolando Sá Nogueira, (

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, May 19, 1921 – November 18, 2002), was one of the most important painters of his generation; according to José Augusto França, he belongs to the third wave of 20th Century modern

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Biography / Work

His early

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– done whilst he was studying at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts –, closely related to

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and Modigliani; but he soon found his own voice, picturing the landscapes and the daily life of Lisbon’s modern areas in personal, sensitive paintings, and distancing himself from the predominant currents in the Portuguese art world of the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1962 and 1964 he studied in

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and at the

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. This put him in touch with the early manifestations of Pop Art; and in London he was influenced by the 1963

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’ exhibition at the

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gallery. After returning to Portugal his work deeply changed; his pictorial space got closer to

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and he started using

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and photo sensitized canvas. Without rupture or break, from the 1980s onwards his work evolved, and returned to more traditional pictorial values and to a type of narrative often closer to his 1950’s work. Sá Nogueira exhibited extensively along the years, both in group and in one person exhibitions; in 1998 he held a large retrospective exhibition at the

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, Lisbon. And he was a highly influential

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teacher – from 1965 onwards he taught at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, at the Oporto School of Fine Arts, at the Lisbon Faculty of Architecture, etc. -, influencing a whole generation of younger Portuguese artists ( Pedro Calapez,

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, among many others).

Footnotes

* FRANÇA, José Augusto – A Arte em Portugal no Século XX: 1911-1961. Lisboa: Bertrand Editora, 1991, p. 405.

Bibliography

*NOGUEiRA, Sá – Sá Nogueira: retrospectiva. Lisbon: Chiado Museum, 1998, {{DEFAULTSORT:Nogueira, Sa 2002 deaths 1921 births People from Lisbon Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art 20th-century Portuguese painters 20th-century male artists Portuguese male painters