Women artists in Portugal
In the video on Realism are metioned some female painters and in fact it's curious that so few female painters have projection along the centuries, if we compare to male painters.
There's a famous portuguese female painter of the 17th century, Josefa d'Óbidos, who painted religious canvas, namely for churches.
And more recent painters such as modernist Sara Afonso, who probably was outshadowed by her husband Almada Negreiros, one of the portuguese icons of modernism.
Vieira da Silva is another great portuguese painter, who practically lived her life in Paris, in exile from Fascism. This is one of my favoutite paintings produced in the 70's La Bibliotèque en Feu.
Contemporary Paula Rego, who has lived in London.
Graça Morais, who lives in Portugal.
Another great portuguese female painter is Maria Keil, whose master pieces remain in the public urban art. She designed many of the mosaic panels that inaugurated the first underground stations in Lisbon, in the 50's - a famous panel in an avenue in Lisbon - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Keil.
We have this great tradition of mosaic art that dates back to the XVI century, with much influence from moorish tiles and later on to Flandres. Our underground stations have preserved this tradition in many of the recent stations. Old buildings in Lisbon (and other portuguese towns) have beautiful mosaic façades. I wish more recent buildings might use this artistic medium.
Some time ago I made this video with photos taken from the Internet about this great tradition of AZULEJO.
Joana de Vasconcelos
From a younger generation contemporary portuguese artist Joana de Vasconcelos has exhibited original installations of pieces with popular and low cost unusual materials - pieces covered in lace, pieces made of plastic cutlery, pieces made of pans...
http://joanavasconcelos.com/obras_en.aspx
Her famous Marilyn shoe made of aluminium pans - http://joanavasconcelos.com/det_en.aspx?f=1850&o=624