Vicente Do Rego Monteiro

Vicente do Rego Monteiro (Recife PE 1899 - idem 1970).
Painter, sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and draws. He began his artistic studies in 1908, accompanying his sister Fedora do Rego Monteiro (1889 - 1975) in courses at the National School of Fine Arts - Enba, in Rio de Janeiro. In 1911, he traveled with his family to France, where he attended the Colarossi, Julian and La Grande Chaumière Academies. He participated in the Salon des Indépendants, in 1913, of which he became a corporate member. In Paris, he became friends with Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920), Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955), Georges Braque (1882 - 1963), Joán Miró (1893 - 1983), Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), Jean Metzinger - 1956) and Louis Marcoussis (1883 - 1941).
At the beginning of World War I, he left France with his family and settled in Rio de Janeiro, 1915. In 1918, he performed his first solo show at the Santa Isabel Theater in Recife and two years later exhibited for the first time in São Paulo, where he met Di Cavalcanti (1897 - 1976), Anita Malfatti (1889 - 1964), Pedro Alexandrino (1856 - 1942) and Victor Brecheret (1894 - 1955).
In 1920, he studied the Marajoara art of the collections of the National Museum of Quinta da Boa Vista. Moved by a great passion for dance, he performed in 1921 the show Legends, Beliefs and Talismans of the Indians of Amazonas, at the Trianon Theater, Rio de Janeiro, praised by the poet and critic Ronald de Carvalho (1893-1935). He travels to France, leaving eight oils and watercolors to be exhibited at the 1922 Modern Art Week in São Paulo. In 1923, he made masks and costumes for the ballet Legendes Indiennes de L'Amazonie. He was part of the group of artists of the gallery and magazine L'Effort Moderne, by Leonce Rosemberg. Brings to Brazil the exhibition The School of Paris, exhibited in Recife, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Decorates the Chapel of Brazil in the Vatican Pavilion of the International Exhibition of Paris, in 1937.
In 1946, he founded Editora La Presse à Bras, dedicated to the publication of Brazilian and French poetry. From 1941, he published his first poems, Poemas de Bolso, organized and promoted several salons and congresses of poetry in Brazil and France. He returns to Brazil, and teaches painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE, in 1957 and 1966. In 1960, he received the Guillaume Apollinaire Prize for the sonnets collected in the book Broussais - La Charité. Between 1966 and 1968, he teaches at the Central Institute of Arts of the University of Brasília - UnB.

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