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Having participated in the Portuguese futurist Movement with Almada Negreiros, Amadeo de Sousa Cardoso was to become a semi-forgotten artist for a long period of time, due to the fact (it is said) that he passed away in 1918 at the age of thirty, when his artistic production was just beginning to display "maturity" ...
Equal fate would Fernando Pessoa have, acknowledged (nowadays) as the most outstanding Portuguese poet, who together with them played a major role in the development of Modernism in our country and whose poetry only started to gain a wider audience posthumously ...
"Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused in to word or book,
our soul from us infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
to be our soul and gesture it abroad,
our hearts are incommunicable still,
in what we show ourselves we are ignored."
(1918) in "35 Sonnets", Edições Atica
Fernando Pessoa - oil on canvas by Almada Negreiros. Replica on the left (1964) and the original one on the right (1954)
As if their lives had not been interconnected enough, Almada Negreiros would later pass away in exactly the same room at the Lisbon Hospital of São Luis dos Franceses where Fernando Pessoa had passed away.
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