António Dacosta (3 November 1914 - 2 December 1990) was a Portuguese painter, poet and art critic and a pioneer of the surrealist movement in Portugal.
26-818: DaCosta may refer to: People [ edit ] António Dacosta (1914–1990), Portuguese painter and poet Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor Nia DaCosta (born 1989), American film director, screenwriter, and producer Noel DaCosta (1929–2002), Nigerian-Jamaican composer, jazz violinist, and choral conductor Sagarika DaCosta (born 1970), Indian-Italian singer and actress Yaya DaCosta (born 1982), American actress and fashion model Dacosta Goore (born 1984), Ivorian football defender Other uses [ edit ] DaCosta, New Jersey , an unincorporated community Martin DaCosta , fictional character from
52-688: A centre in Paris (the Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre). The Foundation's Armenian Communities Department has a unique and separate long-running mission in aiding Armenia and Diasporan Armenian projects. It is a member of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation (NEF). The mission statement of the UK Branch desires to change perceptions, build relationships, reduce social exclusion and preserve
78-670: A grant to spend a year in Paris, where he stayed for the rest of his life. For the first time, he was in direct contact with original masterpieces as well as the works of contemporary international artists. Post-war creativity was a revelation to him and he began to doubt the importance of his own work. He progressively stopped painting but nonetheless in 1948 sent two paintings to the Surrealist Group Show in Lisbon. In 1952, his first successful one-man show (17 Paintings 1940 – 1950)
104-651: A large building designed specifically to house and display Museum and art library. These are set in Gulbenkian Park, which was designed by Ribeiro Telles . In 1983, the Modern Art Centre was added at one end of the park. The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum ( Portuguese : Museu Calouste Gulbenkian ), founded in conformity with his last will and testament, accommodates his collection of mostly ancient and classical art, but including some individual modern pieces. The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC,
130-566: A pioneer of Portuguese surrealist art. In the 1950s, many Portuguese artists, including René Bertholo, travelled to Paris in search of new ideas and Dacosta became a valuable inspiration for them and a source of information about Parisian artistic life. In 1969 Dacosta attended a retrospective of his works from 1939 to 1948 at the Galeria Buchholz in Lisbon and in 1978 his paintings were included in Portuguese Art since 1910 at
156-616: A science institute) is not situated on the same premises but its own complex in Oeiras (outskirts of Lisbon), near the palace of the Marquis of Pombal . The institute is an international centre for biological and biomedical research and graduate training. Founded in 1961, the IGC is organised in small independent research groups that work in an environment designed to encourage interactions with minimal hierarchical structure. The scientific programme
182-697: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ant%C3%B3nio Dacosta Dacosta was born in Angra do Heroísmo and grew up on Terceira island, in the Azores . Although he had no formal art training, Dacosta drew and painted from an early age. He completed his studies at the Angra High School and in 1935 left Terceira to attend the Escola de Belas Artes ( Lisbon School of Fine Arts ). Strongly opposed to
208-506: Is multidisciplinary, including Cell and Developmental biology , Evolutionary biology , Immunology , Host-pathogen interaction , Disease Genetics, Plant Biology , Neurosciences , Theoretical and Computational biology . The Gulbenkian Orchestra ( Portuguese : Orquestra Gulbenkian ) is a Portuguese symphony orchestra based in Lisbon . The orchestra primarily gives concerts at the 1,228-seat Grande Auditório (Grand Auditorium) of
234-554: The Armenian language , in particular Western Armenian used mostly by the Armenian diaspora, support of Armenian schools throughout the world, as well as Armenian societies, history, culture, churches, media, sports etc. The Gulbenkian Commission sought to address inadequacies in the organization of the social science disciplines that developed in the nineteenth century by indicating a direction for social scientific inquiry for
260-602: The Gulbenkian Orchestra , Gulbenkian Science Institute , Gulbenkian Prizes and the Gulbenkian Commission . Located in Lisbon ( civil parish of Avenidas Novas ), the Foundation's premises opened in 1969 and were designed by Ruy Athouguia , Pedro Cid , and Alberto Pessoa . In addition to Foundation offices, the complex includes an auditorium, exhibition space, congress facilities, and
286-681: The Salazar dictatorship in Portugal and horrified by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent Nationalist victory, his painting took a menacing and surrealistic turn. He displayed his first paintings at Casa Repe in 1940 along with fellow painter António Pedro and English sculptor, Pamela Boden. He also showed at the annual national Salon of Modern Art where he won the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize in 1942. He became one of
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#1732791018229312-649: The wealthiest charitable foundations in the world , the Gulbenkian Foundation was founded on 18 July 1956 according to the last will and testament of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian , a Portugal-based oil magnate who bequeathed his assets to the country in the form of a foundation. Gulbenkian the Armenian oil magnate had one of the largest private art collections in Europe, which is housed in the foundation's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon . The foundation hosts numerous institutions and initiatives including
338-581: The Foundation's main premises. Established in 1962 as the Orquestra de Câmara Gulbenkian (Gulbenkian Chamber Orchestra) with 12 musicians, it has subsequently expanded in size and took on its current name in 1971. Gulbenkian ballet was a Portuguese classical dance troupe created in 1965 by the Foundation as Centro Português do Bailado. Its programme directors were Walter Gore (1965–1969), Milko Sparembeck (1969–1975), Jorge Salavisa (1977–1996), Iracity Cardoso (1996–2003) and Paulo Ribeiro (2003–2005). The project
364-615: The Japanese SF anime television series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DaCosta . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DaCosta&oldid=1201812901 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
390-527: The Royal Academy of London, a show that he visited with his friend and fellow-artist, Júlio Pomar. Rediscovering his earlier works at this show (he owned none of them) perhaps gave him an impetus to return to painting. In 1971 he moved with his wife, Miriam Rewald, the gallerist, and two young children to Janville, a small town south of Paris, where he started making little objects, ‘things,’ as he liked to call them. Encouraged by artist friends, including
416-539: The School of Fine Arts, Lisbon, and was published in 2012 with reproductions of his entire oeuvre. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( Portuguese : Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian ), commonly referred to simply as the Gulbenkian Foundation , is a Portuguese institution dedicated to the promotion of the arts , philanthropy , science , and education . One of
442-565: The Surrealist, Manuel Alves, he timidly acquired painting material. Although he never tried to show his work publicly, word got around as he occasionally showed a new drawing or object to visitors. In the mid-1970s he stopped sending his articles to Brazil and, thanks to a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , became free to paint. His surrealism disappeared and gave way to a completely new style, devoid of
468-605: The Wall) by Assirio & Assim (Lisbon). He died on 2 December 1990 in Paris. 2014 was the centenary of his birth and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation organized a retrospective, curated by José-Luís Porfírio, former director His paintings are included in public and private collections of art in Europe and the United Statesof the Museum of Ancient Art , Lisbon . A catalogue raisonné was prepared by Fernando Rosas Dias, of
494-555: The environment and innovative partnerships. The foundation publishes books on a range of topics, including arts, education and languages. Partex , a Portuguese oil extraction company, was fully owned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation until it was sold in June 2019 to a Thai company. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is very active in the Armenian community worldwide as its founder Calouste Gulbenkian
520-471: The forerunners of the surrealistic movement in Portugal. Many of his surrealist paintings were lost in a fire in 1944 in the studio where he was working. The remaining paintings are owned by private collectors or Portuguese museums . Throughout the 1940s he wrote art criticism for Portuguese newspapers and illustrated books for several contemporary Portuguese authors. In 1947, the French government awarded him
546-496: The uneasiness and aura of danger in his earlier works. He also began to utilise pagan-religious images from his childhood in the Azores. A peaceful and mystical element entered his paintings, a very personal style - figurative but not representative. In 1983 a one-man show at Galeria 111 in Lisbon revealed his recent paintings, which were all sold to private and public collections. This success encouraged Dacosta to create more work. He
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#1732791018229572-791: Was awarded the national art prize by the Portuguese art critics’ association in 1984 and honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by Portuguese President, Mário Soares , in 1988. He was commissioned to decorate a wall in the new building of the Azorean Parliament in Horta. He spent several months in Horta , installing a series of fifty-four heads in bas-relief representing Azorean citizens. A monument designed by Dacosta
598-613: Was built and inaugurated in the Azores at the Sala Nobre da Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura Angra do Heroísmo in 1995. He began a series of drawings to decorate the walls of Cais do Sodré , a new subway station in Lisbon. However, due to increasing bad health, painting became difficult and the commission was completed under the auspices of his friend and fellow artist Pedro Morais and inaugurated in 1998. Dacosta dedicated much of his later years to poetry. His poems were published posthumously in 1994 as A Cal dos Muros (Chalk on
624-464: Was held at the Galeria de Março in Lisbon. By 1953, he was no longer painting. He became a reporter for a Brazilian newspaper O Estado, writing about the Paris art scene (theatre, literature and art exhibitions). These articles (as well as articles written for Portuguese magazines) were later published in book-form « Dacosta em Paris » by Assirio & Alvim (1999). Dacosta is today considered
650-484: Was of Armenian ethnicity. The Foundation has its Armenian Communities Department headed by Razmik Panossian. The Foundation's Armenian Communities Department distributes scholarships in the form of grants and bourses to Armenian students worldwide pursuing their education all over the world. The Foundation is active in Armenia and throughout the Armenian diaspora . It also supports actively in promotion and preservation of
676-564: Was terminated in 2005. Gulbenkian Choir ( Portuguese : Coro Gulbenkian ) is a musical choir project established by the Foundation in 1964 as the Gulbenkian Chamber Choir (Coro de Câmara Gulbenkian) directed by Olga Violante (1964–1969). Since then the choir made up of an average 100 members is directed by Michel Corboz. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation also has a delegation in the United Kingdom (UK Branch) and
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