
Suite Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso
{November 14, 1887 (Amarante, Portugal) – October 25, 1918 (Espinho, Portugal)}
The dimension of his work is honored in one of our suites with double or twin beds, since it is a very large room, just like the work he left us.
In the Suite dedicated to Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso, the mustard, dark blue, dark green, and red tones of the pillows represent the colors associated with Amadeu de Souza Cardoso.
Please also check the other rooms in the Suite category: Vincent van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Aurélia de Sousa, Peggy Guggenheim, Jackson Pollock, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sigmund & Lucian Freud, Almada Negreiros, Andy Warhol.
Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso was the main artist of Portuguese Modernism.
He began his artistic career in Lisbon, where he studied “Architecture”, at the Academia de Belas-Artes; but, bored with the daily life of the capital and disillusioned with academicism, the lack of originality, and the preconceived ideas of the academy, he left for Paris, where he continued his studies.
Paris, the center of modern art and avant-garde ideas, was the city that awakened the modern artist, leaving architecture aside.
His short life was enough to create an extensive, revolutionary, and unique work. Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso was considered by many to be "the first discovery of Portugal in Europe in the 20th century".
Some of his main works:
Artistic currents: Cubism, Expressionism, Modern Art, Abstractionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Modernism.
"Art, as I feel it, is the emotional product of nature, source of life, sensitivity, color, depth, mental action and emotional power." – Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso