S u m m a r i z e d   C u r r i c u l u m 

 

Edmundo Cruz started his education as an artist at António Arroio Art School (Lisbon, Portugal), where he met and learned from famous artists such as Celestino Alves, Frederico Jorge, Rodrigues Alves and Falcão Trigoso.
Years later, he developed his skills at the American Famous Art School, in Connecticut, USA.
As a textile engineer (style printing and tapestry), he worked in South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he also had the chance to apply his artistic skills as a freelance illustrator for famous magazines of those countries, such as Femina, Personality, Scope and The Star.
His works have been regularly exhibited in Portugal, USA, United Kingdom and Spain since 1965.


Mentioned in the books:
Cor e Luz - Artes plásticas em Portugal; Arte Guia (Spain and Portugal); Annuaire de l’Art International (France); Guia Europeu de Belas-Artes (Portugal); Diccionário Gal Art de Artistas y Exposiciones (Spain); Dez Anos de Arte (Portugal); Retrospectiva da Colecção da EPAL (Portugal).


Prizes:
Montepio Geral Prize – VIII Salão de Arte – Núcleo Ferreira Borges (Lisbon); 2nd Prize for Watercolour – XIII Salão do Ribatejo; Quimigal Prize – IX Salão de Arte – Núcleo Ferreira Borges (Lisbon); Ribatejo Prize - XIV Salão de Motivos Ribatejanos; Comp. Seguros “O Trabalho” Prize – XI Salão de Arte – Núcleo Ferreira Borges (Lisbon); Governo Civil de Lisboa Prize (Lisbon); Gold Medal XII Salão de Arte – Núcleo Ferreira Borges (Lisbon); Banco Espírito Santo Prize; Silver Medal for Municipal Merit, Sintra Council; Óscar della Cultura 2001 (Florence, Italy); Academia Universal 2002 Prize (Palinuro, Italy); Gold Medal for Municipal Merit, Sintra Council; Academia “Gli Etruschi Prize 2004 (Livorno, Italy).


A Comment
Atmospheres of radiant values, full of life and living.
(...) The colour, blossoming from a deep preparation in the palette, reigns over the entire composition (...) it may shine through the landscape, dim or become vaguely distinguishable (…). But, normally, it doesn’t blend (…) for in the art of Edmundo Cruz the colour is in itself light and shape, never to become obscured in an incipient mixture.
It is the princess of each tone, a subjective value that imposes itself in the chromatic density which, in the painting, is also psychological.
(…) In his free and secure technique, he doesn’t imitate the artists that inspire him. Instead, his research work enables him to reach the high level that he has attained thanks to his own skills.
A figure painter par excellence, he finds his “harbour of refuge” that leads him to the truth in his art both in the pasty density of the paint and in his transparencies.
Edmundo Cruz knows how to transmit what lies in his soul and, in that poetic statement converted into light to define his charm as a painter, he is a very original artist.
Dr. Emanuel Correia
Art History's Expert