Sílvia Sousa's working method is part of a vast and long tradition in the history of painting, particularly since the advent of photography, which freed painting and painters from the role of imitating and describing reality. Formally, the paintings he develops have obvious af...
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Sílvia Sousa's working method is part of a vast and long tradition in the history of painting, particularly since the advent of photography, which freed painting and painters from the role of imitating and describing reality. Formally, the paintings he develops have obvious affinities with historical currents such as Cubism, in the way he deconstructs images and segments them, Geometric Abstractionism or the minimalist and Hard Edge painting that emerged mainly in the United States around the 1960s, for example. We could also mention Suprematism, Russian Constructivism or even Neo-Plasticism, but only on a formal level, because in terms of content these avant-gardes obeyed a political, social and ideological programme that it would be dishonest to relate to the artist's projects.
