Júlio Pomar (1926-2018) - Tigre

Júlio Artur da Silva Pomar (Lisbon, January 10, 1926 – Lisbon, May 22, 2018) was a Portuguese visual artist/painter. He belonged to the 3rd generation of Portuguese modernist painters, being the author of a multifaceted body of work centered on painting, drawing, ceramics and printmaking, with important developments in the realms of the tridimensional (sculpture; assemblage) or writing. The early years of his career are linked to the resistance against the Estado Novo regime and to the assertion of the neorealist movement in Portugal, marking its specificity in the European context. He had intense artistic and civic activity throughout the 1940s and 1950s and is unanimously considered the most prominent of the practitioners of national neorealism.