Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Born: June 13, 1908; Lisbon, Portugal
Died: March 6, 1992; Paris
Nationality: French, Portuguese
Art Movement: Abstract Art
Genre: abstract
Field: painting
Soundtrack:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Musical Offering, (Arr. for Piano) BWV 1079
1 Canon a 2
2 Canon a 4
3 Canon Perpetuus
4 Ricercar a 3
5 Ricercar a 6
6 Andante
Konstantin Lifschitz, piano
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (French-Portuguese, was an abstract painter based in France. She first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lisbon with the painter Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955) and produced textiles, sculptures, ceramics and paintings.
In 1928, she moved to Paris. She was influenced by the work of the impressionist Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947) and began exhibiting her own abstract paintings, famous for their treatment of perspective and space.

[@RonaldGosses]

Wonderful! Thanks for showing.

[@elisavieira737]

👋❤

[@pamberry6354]

This is a new and brilliant painter to me..I could look over and over again! What an amazing diversity of ideas!

[@andreasomenzi5194]

Sublime talento. Artista incredibile

[@darrinheaton4016]

Love The Chessboard - how the board becomes a kind of mind-space in which the figures carry out mental moves. A few of the warped grids remind me of the contemporary painter Julie Mehretu.