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artists derives from their remarkable use of the painting technique and perhaps also from the tranquility of their subject matter, a curious tranquility at a time of agitation and revolution: the intimacy of bourgeois life, relaxing landscapes, happy people,
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From 1981 on he almost exclusively devotes himself to painting, in an intimate approach that contrasts with the socio-political intervention of his cartoons. In 2009 he exhibits at the Palácio
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everyday life and the fantastic, in Lisbon landscapes invaded by strange beings
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in which the ridiculous and the tragedy of colonization and the colonial war,
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A Difficult Problem, 1975, Indian ink on paper, 37 x 62 cm
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fit together, alternate or are linked to each other
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