EDVARD MUNCH
(1863-1944)
Born in Adalsbruk, Norway.
He is the most famous Nowergian painter and printmaker; everybody knows "The Scream". Only a few knows that he created not only one but four versions of that painting, two pastels and two paintings.
He was a real modernist painter who got the influence of Symbolism and German Expressionism while living in Oslo, Paris and Berlin.
About his "The Scream" Munch said: "I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set, suddenly, the sky turned as read as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood streched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature."
His legacy is enormous. More than 1.000 paintings and almost 5.000 drawings. Most of these works are represented in numerous museums and art galleries in Norway and abroad.

"The Scream", 1893

"vening on Karl Johan Street", 1892

"nude by Wicker Chair", 1929

"house on the coast", 1915   woodcut

"the dance of life", 1900

CHIRODEEP CHAUDHURI
Born in 1972 in Calcuta, India.
He received his postgraduate diploma in jounalism from the Xavier Institute of Communication in Mumbai.
Soon began working as a trainee reporter and a few time later as a street photographer in Mumbai were he is still based.
Among other responsible works, I emphasize he is the picture-editor for Mumbai Time-Out, on the book Bombay then, Mumbai now and also in the National Geographic Traveller India.
This photographer/poet is still one of the finest street photographers in India. I say poet because every  picture is poetry, as you may see.

"Marine drive 2 dogs couple"

 "Marine drive", 2010

"village in Bengal"

"Old motors repair shop", in New Delhi, 2001

MAAT

Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Abre hoje, 5 de Outubro, o novo Museu de Lisboa.

COSTA DVOREZKY
This Canadian expressionist artist was born in 1968 in Russia.
He studied in the Academy of Arts in Moscow and a little later decided to travel and the option was Canada. His  home until now.
His figuratif  expressionist  paintings, plenty of symbolism and color, show his perfect style and creativity. He is quite minimal with his brush strokes, wonderful shapes, light and, of course, the human body, everything under a special aestetic and technique.

FRANCIS PICABIA
1879-1953
He was born in Paris, France, his mother being French and his father Cuban.
He began painting very young, aged 16, working at the Cormon's studio.
In 1912 he went to the United States were he spent a few years working on several art reviews in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp.
Only in 1918, back to Europe, he got the first contact with the Dadaism.
Picabia, both painter and poet, was a great Epicurean and after experimenting Pointilism and Impressionism adopted Cubism as an art expression. 
Picabia owes his place to the virtuality and restless curiosity with which he threw himself into Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. 
In fact, he was one of the main artists of the Dada movement.

"Greta Garbo"

"Idylle"

"Adan y Eva", 1911  oil on canvas

"Dances at the Spring", 1912

BELMIRO BARBOSA DE ALMEIDA
(1885-1935)
Nasceu no Serro, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Estudou artes no Rio de Janeiro e, com apenas 25 anos, decidiu partir para Paris. E foi dividindo a sua vida entre o Brasil e Paris até que acabou por lá se fixar no início dos anos 50. 
Aí conviveu com artistas como Manet e Degas, entre outros, de quem veio a receber uma certa influencia na sua pintura sem, no entanto, abandonar o seu estilo mais académico porque isso lhe dava os meios de que precisava para viver.
Também ensaiou Pontilhismo à maneira de Seurat e pintou como um futurista, exemplo do seu quadro "Mulher em circulos".
Foi um artista muito eclético que soube desenvolver, com êxito, a sua profissão de professor sendo ao mesmo tempo pintor, desenhador, escultor e caricaturista.
Como caricaturista, foi autor de caricaturas muito criticas e mordazes   publicadas em diversas revistas tais como a Cigarra, Bruxa e o Malho, para as quais trabalhou.
Como escultor deixou, entre outras, a peça Manequinho que, na verdade, é a sua versão de Manekin-pis de Bruxelas.
Morreu em Paris em 1935, deixando grande parte da sua obra e dos seus bens para que a Escola Nacional de Belas Artes desse apoio a artistas mais carenciados.

"O Manequinho"

"Arrufos", 1887,     óleo sobre tela

"namoro do guarda"

"retrato de Abigail", 1900

"a tagarela", 1893,    óleo sobre tela

"maternidade em circulos", 1908

CORNEILLE
(Cornelis van Beverloo)
(1922-2010)
He was born in Liège, Belgium and moved to The Netherlands with his Dutch family at the age of 12 .
There he studied drawing at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam. As a painter he was a self-taught abstract expressionist. Also a printmaker and ceramist. 
Later moved to Paris living there until his dead.
I met him a couple of times and I may say that he was an optimist for life. A very kind person, a poet as a painter.
We easily can see that optimism, that joy in his lyrical paintings. 
In the early works he had certain affinities with Miró and Klee, but his later works show a departure from this style to, what I may consider, the result of the influence in African Art.
In a single work he comprises, with vibrant colors, birds, cats, plants, exotic symbols  and,  of course, women. And for Corneille the woman's body is a source of mistery and desire. 
He co-founded with Karel Appel and Constant the experimental Reflex group and later, in 1948, the group CoBrA, one of the most significant post-war art movements of the 20th century.

"China Suite V", 2004

"Fete nocturne"

"Dario della Torre II", 2003,  acryl op doek

"Le Divan Blue", 1979

 "Le Theatre Chiron",  1969