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Júlio Resende
(b. 1917, Portugal)

Júlio Martins da Silva Dias was born in Porto where, from 1937, he attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes, having been a pupil of Dordio Gomes. The group of students responsible for the organisation of the Independent Exhibitions, which took place in several cities from 1943 to 1950 with the intention of breaking free from academicism, met regularly at his house. The first signs of modernity appear in Júlio Resende’s paintings around 1943.

In 1945 Resende went to Madrid where he carefully studied Goya’s painting, thus discovering his fundamental talent: expressionism.
Older companion of the main promoters of geometrical abstractionism and of the neo-realism of the 1940s, his artistic creation reflects at a superior level the whole social and aesthetics problematic of such artistic movements. The populist subject dominates in his painting, represented in a way that learns from abstractionism, be it geometrical or gesticulatory.

He received a SNI prize and left for Paris as a scholarship student, attending the Paris Fine-Arts School in 1947.

IN:http://www.portoturismo.pt/en/a_cidade/cronologia/pintores.asp

Links:

Biography: http://lambiek.net/artists/r/resende_julio.htm
Júlio Resende: http://www.artnet.com/library/07/0715/T071582.asp