Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
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Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos or just Mário Cesariny, (August 9, 1923) is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets, having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny is also a painter, but his work became more centered in poetry in the 1950s.
[edit] Biography
Mário Cesariny was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1923. He studied in the prestigious Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio and also studied music with the composer Fernando Lopes Graça. Later he joined the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he met Andre Breton in 1947. He soon became influenced by the French surrealist movement and was one of the biggest supporters of the movement in Portugal, where he founded the Lisbon Surrealist Movement with other Portuguese artists including Alexandre O'Neill and José-Augusto França.
After being acquainted with the surrealist movement, Cesariny moved away from the neorealist movement, important at the time in the country for being composed mainly by members of the resistance against the fascist leaning regime of Oliveira Salazar. He adopted an attitude of constant experimenting in his work. This principle is the main characteristic of his work and has been present throughout his career.
[edit] Works
- 1950 - Corpo Visível
- 1952 - Discurso sobre a Reabilitação do Real Quotidiano
- 1953 - Louvor e Simplificação de Álvaro de Campos
- 1956 - Manual de Prestidigitação
- 1957 - Pena Capital
- 1958 - Alguns Mitos Maiores e Alguns Mitos Menores Postos à Circulação pelo Autor
- 1959 - Nobilíssima Visão
- 1961 - Poesia
- 1961 - Planisfério e Outros Poemas
- 1964 - Um Auto para Jerusalém
- 1965 - Titânia e A Cidade Queimada
- 1972 - Burlescas, Teóricas e Sentimentais
- 1980 - Primavera Autônoma das Estradas
- 1994 - Titânia
