Openning of the exhibit Museu Adentro /13
Speaker: Prof Ana Paula Rebelo Correia, Scientific Advisor for the NOVO BANCO Painting Collection
The two paintings “Volta do Rio” and “Chamando a Barcaça” were produced in Pont-Scorff, the town where Souza Pinto settled in 1903 and which inspired him deeply. They represent the washerwomen who washed and bleached clothes in the River Scorff, one of the most common trades in the region during the 19th century and early 20th century.
Souza Pinto incorporated into his paintings the psychological feeling conveyed by the realists, the aesthetic values of the impressionists and the atmospheric veracity of outdoor painting, developing a very distinctive and unmistakable artistic and interpretative component, marked in particular by his ability to reconcile the melancholic, darker and cloudier atmosphere that characterises the Breton landscape with the luminous atmosphere he saw in Portugal, where he spent long periods of time.