Sá Nogueira

Portuguese plastic artist (1921-2002), he enrolled in Architecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 1942, having decided to change to Painting in 1946. At the beginning of the 60’s he took off to London, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenian Foundation, where he attended the School of Arts and Crafts (set design) and the Slade School of Arts. In London he “discovered” the collage, the photography and the photomontage as essential materials for the practice of painting and also other artists, among which Paula Rego. Steeped in the pop spirit, he started to integrate the daily life in his work, first in London, then in Lisbon. In 1969 he started to work at the architect Conceição Silva’s atelier (where he stayed until 1975). There he started the photographic images impressed on canvas and later worked in acrylic and oil, conceived by the artist and executed trough industrial processes of working in series, having a team of five helpers. His action as teacher connected to the teaching of draw was determinant in the schooling of several generations of younger artists. Since the 60’s and until the end of his life, he taught at several institutions, namely at the National Society of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, or at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon.