Word: vieira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...award, the São Paulo Town Hall Prize, went to France's Portuguese-born Vieira da Silva, 53. Large Constructions (see color) is one of ten of her paintings in the show. But Bienal awards are given more for overall achievement than for individual entries, and Painter Vieira da Silva's achievement has been notable (see below). Among the other winners, each of whom received...
...past ten years, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 53, has not only been the leading woman painter of the School of Paris, but also has surpassed many of the men. Some critics have called her a "lyric expressionist," others an "abstract landscapist"; perhaps she is both and more. "With present techniques, an architect can build whatever he wants to," she says. "Why shouldn't I be able to build what I like in a painting?" Painter Vieira da Silva builds intricate constructions that never say, but only hint at what they...
Thirty years ago, while visiting Marseille, Vieira da Silva saw the famous Pont Transbordeur. "It no longer exists," she says, "and I would not know exactly how to describe it without my brushes." Nevertheless she remembers seeing in it not just a bridge but space chopped and linked up by an extraordinarily beautiful network of lines. This simultaneous chopping and linking has been the dominant theme in her work ever since. At one time she built up her paintings almost entirely of small squares. Later the squares opened into lines that could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements...
Portuguese Angolans faced still more trouble in the U.N. Forty Asian and African nations last week sponsored a proposal to put the Angola troubles on the General Assembly agenda. Just before the vote, Portuguese U.N. Delegate Vasco Vieira Garin stalked out of the Assembly hall "in the name of justice and right." Then, by a vote of 79-2, the Assembly voted to put Angola on the docket. France and Britain were among the eight who abstained. The U.S. reaffirmed its earlier stand, voted with the majority. Portugal's two lonesome defenders: Franco Spain and South Africa...