Dórdio Gomes

Portuguese painter (1890-1976). His academic schooling, held in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, was completed with a stay in Paris, to where he took off with a scholarship in 1910. In Paris he gets to know the work of Paul Cézanne, who highly influenced his initial paintings. The emphasis of perspectives and volumes in landscape representation, associated to an expressionist stroke and chromatism, is well manifested in all his first works. The Alentejo landscape thematically dominates his artistic production since the mid 20’s. Parallely, he developed the portrayal genre, besides other themes exemplified by the mural paintings of Tavares Martins Bookshop and of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Church, in Porto. He also developed, since 1933, a renowned teaching activity the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.