{"id":18119,"date":"2026-01-05T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/?p=18119"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:51:39","slug":"mural-painting-to-convey-a-social-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/news\/mural-painting-to-convey-a-social-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Pintura mural para comunicar uma mensagem social"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Work begins on the Alc\u00e2ntara Maritime Station complex<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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P\u00fablico<\/i> highlights Almada murals restoration and Interpretation Centre<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In both Rocha do Conde d\u2019\u00d3bidos and Alc\u00e2ntara maritime stations, Almada Negreiros \u2018uses mural painting to convey a social message\u2019, art historian Mariana Pinto dos Santos<\/a> tells Portuguese newspaper P\u00fablico<\/em>, pointing out that \u2018through it, he praises anonymous people, women; he talks about war, emigration, farewells, he depicts couples kissing in the street when the regime prohibited it…\u2019.<\/p>

Mariana spoke to the national daily newspaper regarding the intervention on the Almada murals at the Alc\u00e2ntara Maritime Station, set to begin this month. Researcher at the Art History Institute (IHA<\/a>, in the Portuguese acronym) \u2013 NOVA FCSH \/ IN2PAST, she heads the Almada Negreiros \u2013 Sarah Affonso Study and Documentation Centre CEDANSA<\/a> and is in charge of content design and scientific coordination for the Almada Murals at the Maritime Stations Interpretation Centre<\/a>, which opened to the public<\/a> in April 2025.<\/p>

\u2018It is very significant that, at Rocha [do Conde d\u2019\u00d3bidos], Almada paints those African varinas<\/em> [women selling fish in the street] and places them at the centre of one of the triptychs. And he does so in a very graphic language, with cubist and post-cubist elements, which is a far cry from the neo-Gothic style that the Estado Novo public commission was accustomed to,\u2019 explains the researcher.<\/p>

In an article<\/a> by Lucinda Canelas (text) and Rui Gaud\u00eancio (photography), featured on the front-page of the December 24 edition, Mariana further emphasises that Almada Negreiros transforms ‘a black varina<\/em> into a monument’, and that ‘there is no other work from this period in which the black body is treated with such dignity, nor such protagonism\u2018.<\/p>

At the Alc\u00e2ntara Maritime Station, where restoration work is now set to begin, Almada\u2019s murals are less obviously subversive but still \u2018confrontational\u2019 and \u2018insubordinate\u2019. Read the full news report by P\u00fablico<\/em><\/a> to learn more and check out Mariana\u2019s testimony<\/a> regarding the importance of this unique work in the Portuguese 20th century panorama and the relevance of the Interpretation Centre.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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IMAGE<\/strong> From left to right: Assistant Deputy Director for Research Cristina Brito; Manuel Pedro Ferreira, from CESEM; and Ant\u00f3nio Candeias, from HERCULES<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Work begins on the Alc\u00e2ntara Maritime Station complex Mural painting to convey a social message P\u00fablico highlights Almada murals restoration and Interpretation Centre 05\/01\/2026 In both Rocha do Conde d\u2019\u00d3bidos and Alc\u00e2ntara maritime stations, Almada Negreiros \u2018uses mural painting to convey a social message\u2019, art historian Mariana Pinto dos Santos tells Portuguese newspaper P\u00fablico, pointing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18119"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20061,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18119\/revisions\/20061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in2past.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}