THE SPLENDOR OF ORIGINS

Painter, poet, a reference in contemporary Portuguese painting and European painting, Júlio Pomar followed the route of miracles that before him, really or symbolically, guided Gauguin (1848-1903), Matisse (1869 -1954), Modigliani (1884-1920) and Picasso (1881-1973) masters of modern art, towards the imagination of civilizations and primitive peoples. At the end of the 1980s, his stay in the Amazon forest, following the filming of the film Kuarup by Ruy Guerra and his contact with the Xingu Indians was linked to the phase to which this work belongs. The painter calls; In these works, he assumes the relationship with the magical and deep side of reality, which defines: “what is What is real is what is real? opening up to the imaginary, which in turn introduces unexpected cracks in the very body of this reality.” His work then reflects “the colors, the materials, the voids and the full, the lights and the shadows” that result from the magic of this dialogue with a nature that retains the splendor of its origins. “Seeing, listening, touching and feeling”, in his words, become a whole program. This symphony for the senses that exalts the original ballet of forms, its beauty and its power are very present in this work, in the exuberant palette of warm dominant, in the controlled energy of the forms that flow and levitate, defined and indefinite, is ethics and dynamics, in the simultaneous lesson of drawing and painting.

Maria João Fernandes