José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (April 7, 1893–June 15, 1970); Portuguese artist. Born in the colony of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father and a Santomean mother. Besides literature and painting, Almada developed ballet choreographies, and worked on tapestry, engraving, murals, caricature, mosaic, azulejo and stained glass. ...In 1913 he had his first individual exhibition, showing 90 drawings. In 1915, along with Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, he published poems and texts in the Orpheu artistic magazine, which would introduce modernist literature and art in Portugal. This same year Almada Negreiros wrote the famous Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against a more traditionalist and bourgeois older generation. In 1915 he also conceived the O Sonho da Rosa ballet. ...Between 1918–20 Almada lived in Paris. To support himself, he worked as a dancer and as a factory worker. In 1920 he returned to Lisbon. In 1925 he produced two paintings for one of the most famous cafés in Lisbon, A Brasileira. ...Back in Portugal... he became a key artist in Portuguese modern art, influenced by Cubism and, mainly, by Futurism. ..He was also, if only occasionally, an actor and a dancer, understanding that all forms of art are intimately linked. Almada Negreiros always called himself a futurist artist, inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and other modern artists; however his style is wider, and does not fit easily into a category. Adding to this modern approach his works also revealed a decorative and arabesque richness, and sometimes a geometrical abstraction. His public art was often politically engaged, as his mural Gare Maritima de Alcantara shows. Many of his paintings and drawings show common people in daily affairs or attitudes usual in socialist art. His work as a visual artist extended to tapestry, printmaking, theater and ballet scenography. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_Almada_Negreiros] undefined

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