JÚLIO POMAR, THE DEAN OF THE GREAT MASTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. XX PORTUGUESE

J J Lisbon, 1926), based in Paris since 1963, gradually moved away from the initial model of a figurative expression that he would never completely abandon. From then on, his commitment would be to the language of painting itself, an object of reflection also in his poetry. With the expression of gesture, line, composition and color, moving towards informalism and passing through an aesthetic of fragmentation and collage. The current work for screen printing in a suggestion of a surrealist assemblage, evokes the tiger series from the 1980s, with an intervention of drawing, under the sign of the unusual and the lyricism of a fan, a virtually sculptural element contrasting with the paint drips and its openings to an invasive light, in a wise composition revealing the author's plastic mastery.

Maria João Fernandes