About Art and Artist ....

Date of Issue - 27 January 2009

Hi ! In the morning post I wrote about the new stamp on science by Portugal. Here is a beautiful stamp depicting a painting by famous Portuguese artist, Henrique Pousão who died at the young age of 25 , he was a major figure in the history and culture of Portugal. The set of 2 stamps depicting art and the artist was issued on 27 January 2009 The stamp represents a painting ' Waiting for Success ' painted in 1882 depicts the inside of the painter’s studio, where the model, a popular figure of a Roman boy, shows a childish drawing during a break between posing. This work still possesses features that are strikingly academic, in terms of the composition structure though particularly rich in referents, which might suggest a more in-depth interpretation.Here are the beautiful stamps and FDC depicting an important figure from Portuguese history and culture. This is all for this Evening !....Till Next Post ....Have a Nice Time !.....

Henrique Pousão (1859 – 1884)

Henrique César de Araújo Pousão was born in Vila Viçosa on January 1, 1859. He was the son of a judge, Nunes Pousão. Due to his father’s profession, he lived in several cities before settling in the North of the country in 1872, where he began his artistic studies in the Fine Arts Academy of Porto (Academia Portuense de Belas Artes). Among his masters in the first years of his studies, António José da Costa, with whom he had private lessons, and João António Correia and Marques de Oliveira, at the Academy, stand out.In November 1880, after having won a few months earlier a state scholarship to study abroad, he left for Paris together with Sousa Pinto. He enrolled in the Fine Art Academy where he studied under the painters Cabanel and Yvon. He worked intensely during the first months, on small annotations and landscape studies.

The severe Paris winter soon proved inadequate for his feeble health. The following summer he travelled to the centre of France in search of a better climate and, at the end of the year, in December 1881, after applying for a transfer, he moved to Rome. Some of his most symbolic works are from this new phase. Another fundamental stage of Pousão‘s artistic path is linked to his stay on the island of Capri, which he visited during the time he lived in Rome, between June 1882 and September 1883. The Mediterranean light and the intense colours fill the studies to which the artist fastens pieces of landscape or plain street scenes. The advance of the disease forced him to return to Portugal. Pousão died of tuberculosis, in March 1884, at the young age of twenty five.

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