and meteoric career in the experimentation of new forms of expression. In 1915 Amadeo and other artists such as Santa-Rita, Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro joined to shape Orpheu, a magazine which had only two editions and is considered by many to be the exponent of Portuguese Modernism. Amadeo also participated in another magazine, Portugal Futurista, which had only one edition published. In 1916, he displayed in Oporto 114 artworks with the heading ―Abstraccionism‖ that also was displayed in Lisbon, one and another with newness and some scandal. Cubism was in expansion throughout Europe and was an important influence in his analytical Cubism. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso explored Expressionism and in his last works he tried new techniques and other forms of plastic expression. In 1925, a retrospective exhibition in France of the painter‘s artwork was well received by the public and critics. Ten years later in Portugal, an award was created to distinguish modern painters: the Souza-Cardoso prize. Amadeo de Souza Cardoso was a visionary. His ink drawings, richly decorative but always figurative, allow a relationship to those of Aubrey Beardsley. His artworks are characterized by exotic landscapes with prodigious styles, decorative and surprising aspects with cubism drawings which transmitted elegance, mystery, imagination, emotion, poetry and symbolism. After his death, his work remained almost unknown until 1952, when a room dedicated to his paintings in the Amarante Museum gained the public's attention. It is said that Amadeo crossed the modern painting like a comet: brief but intense. Although little known internationally, he is one of the most innovative artists of his time. Selection of artworks - Retrato de Francisco Cardoso ( Portrait of Francisco Cardoso ) - Menina dos Cravos ( Carnation girl ) - Cozinha da Casa de Manhufe ( Manhufe's kitchen ) - Entrada ( Entrance ) - Pintura (Painting) (Brut 300 TSF) - Os falcões ( The Hawks ), álbum XX dessins, publ. In Paris, 1912 - O castelo, ( The Castle) 1912 - Pintura ( Painting ): Coty, 1917 - Máscara de olho verde ( The green-eyed mask ), 1916
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues was born in Martim Vaz, in Lisbon, Portugal. She was the fifth in a family with nine children. The date of birth is ignored and in official documents it is stated that she had been born on July 23 but Amália had always considered that she was born on the first day of the month. Amália was a Portuguese fado singer and an actress known globally as the Queen of Fado. Amália was the daughter of a musician and of a shoemaker and before she was born her father tried his luck in Lisbon, but 14 months after Amália's birth, their parents went back to Fundão, leaving Amália under the care of her grandparents in the capital. In 1929, Amália began studying at the elementary school, and it was at a school party that she sang for the first time in public. After having finished the elementary school, in 1932, she got a job as embroiderer and a year later she worked in the cake factory of Pampulha, in Lisbon. In 1934, Amália decided to live with their parents, and to help her family she began to work, then a fifteen-year-old girl, in the area of Rocha's wharf, selling fruit; being known for her distinct voice, she was integrated in the popular march of Alcântara, in 1936. In 1938 Amália met Francisco of Cruz, an amateur guitarist, with whom she married in 1940. Amália was invited to sing at the most famous fado house then, Severa‘s retreat,
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