The Rediscovery of a Great Artist Through the Major Themes of Her Pictorial Production<\/strong><\/p> The volume traces the career of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908\u20131992) from the 1930s to the 1980s, through a selection of key paintings that illustrate the repeated and continuously evolving development of her abstract forms and optical illusions. Drawings, prints, illustrated books, and tapestries will also be included to offer a comprehensive view of the artist\u2019s interdisciplinary practice.<\/p> Vieira da Silva\u2019s work unfolds through a variety of styles and influences, ranging from the decorative geometry of Hispano-Arabic tiles (azulejos) to the checkered tablecloths depicted in the paintings of Pierre Bonnard. Among the aspects the catalogue seeks to highlight is the relationship between abstraction and figuration, developed within architectural spaces that blur the distinction between real and imaginary urban landscapes, beyond formal references to Portuguese visual culture and avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Futurism. Furthermore, it is important to reconsider her work as independent from the Informal movement (with which she has often been associated) and to recognize her experience in Paris\u2014a transnational center in the postwar period\u2014and the network of connections she created during the years of World War II, when she took refuge with her husband \u00c1rp\u00e1d Szenes in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15141,"template":"","tags":[],"collane":[346],"categorie":[355],"artisti":[595],"istituzioni":[457],"class_list":["post-15139","prodotti","type-prodotti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","collane-catalogues","categorie-modern-art","artisti-maria-helen-vieira-da-silva-en","istituzioni-peggy-guggenheim-collection-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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