António Carneiro
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António Carneiro was a Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, perhaps the most innovative from the second naturalist generation, even more than Aurélia de Souza
Aurélia de Souza
Aurélia de Souza was a Portuguese painter.She was born in Valparaíso, Chile. Her parents were emigrants in Brazil and Chile, but they moved back to Porto, Portugal, in 1869. She studyed at the Fine-Arts Academy of Porto, since 1893, where she was a pupil of João Marques de Oliveira, who greatly...

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He started to paint in a naturalist style, but he showed other influences in latter works, like the tryptic "A Vida" (c. 1900), or "Life", a simbolist composition, highly influenced by French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.-Life:...

. He latter seems to show Munch
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...

 and the expressionist painters' influence in works like Night Landscape (c. 1911) and in the distorted landscapes of the north of Portugal he painted in the 1910s and 1920s, where he reveals a unique modernity for a Portuguese painter from his generation.

See also

  • Aurélia de Souza
    Aurélia de Souza
    Aurélia de Souza was a Portuguese painter.She was born in Valparaíso, Chile. Her parents were emigrants in Brazil and Chile, but they moved back to Porto, Portugal, in 1869. She studyed at the Fine-Arts Academy of Porto, since 1893, where she was a pupil of João Marques de Oliveira, who greatly...

  • Mário Eloy
    Mário Eloy
    Mário Eloy was a Portuguese expressionist painter.Eloy was born in Lisboa. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that he admired during his staying in Germany, from 1927 to 1932, specially Carl Hofer.After returning...

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