Mário Silva - Fotografia & Pintura

"I have no special talent.
I'm just passionately curious."
Albert Einstein

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"Farmers" (2022) - Manuel Araújo
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The work "Farmers" by the Valboense painter Manuel Araújo is an expressive and colorful representation of traditional agricultural work, marked by an aesthetic that blends figuration with slightly stylized and geometric elements.
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"The sun hides behind the Larouco mountain range" - Mário Silva
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The photograph captures a majestic sunset, dominated by a palette of intensely warm tones, where incandescent orange floods almost the entire celestial vault.
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"View of a Village" (1914) - Artur Alves Cardoso

This oil painting is a representation of the rural landscape and vernacular architecture, executed with a strong naturalistic style and a luminosity influenced by Impressionism, characteristic features of the Portuguese painter.

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"World Blood Donor Day" - Mário Silva (IA)
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The photo depicts a modern and bright clinical setting, focused on the moment of a blood donation.
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On the left, a young donor rests relaxed on a white couch, displaying a broad smile as he extends his right arm, (...)
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"Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fishes"-Mário Silva (AI)

Contemporary artistic creation in Portugal has found fascinating bridges between historical heritage and new technologies.
Photographer and digital creator Mário Silva — known for his visual explorations that cross writing

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"Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina)"
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The photograph captures, in close-up and with impressive sharpness, the delicate beauty of a passerine bird in its natural environment.
The This is a male Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina), characterized by its grey plumage (...)
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"The Little Sparrow and the Dusk"-Águas Frias, Chaves, Portugal
Mário Silva

The image captures the silhouette of nature at twilight in the Transmontane village.
In the foreground, branches and leaves of an apple tree stand out against the sky, displaying small green fruits (...)

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Portugal Day, Camões Day and Portuguese Communities Day in the Diaspora”
Mário Silva (IA)
The image is a digital work with an oil painting aesthetic using a palette knife (impasto), rich in three-dimensional textures.
In the center, the bust of Luís de Camões stands out, (...)

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"A Corner of the Hidden Corners" - Águas Frias, Chaves, Portugal
Mário Silva
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The photograph depicts the vernacular architecture and tranquility of a rural area in the village of Águas Frias, captured under a golden, sidelighting of late afternoon.
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"Water reservoir for irrigation" - Mairos, Chaves, Portugal - Mário Silva

This archival photograph captures a serene rural and hydraulic landscape.
The composition is dominated by a large reservoir or body of water, whose dark surface is slightly rippled by small waves (...)
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"Between the Sacred (bell tower) and the Profane (sundial)"
Águas Frias, Chaves, Portugal

Mário Silva
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The image captures, from a low angle and under the golden light of the late afternoon, the top of a rustic granite ecclesiastical structure.
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"Serinus serinus – the singer who won't go to Eurovision" - Mário Silva
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The image captures, in a medium shot and low angle, a serinus serinus perched on an oak branch in a moment of pure musical virtuosity.
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"Almond Trees in Bloom" - Alcino Rodrigues

This work by Alcino Rodrigues is a pictorial representation that celebrates the beauty of the natural landscape, focusing on one of the most emblematic phenomena of northern Portugal's interior: the flowering of the almond trees.
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"Corpus Christi Procession" – Mário Silva (IA)

This digital work executed with a vibrant texture that simulates impasto oil painting, depicts a solemn procession in Trás-os-Montes.
In the center of the composition, under a golden canopy, the priest carries the Monstrance
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"Corpus" - Mário Lino
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"Corpus" is a 2024 painting by the artist Mário Lino from Chaves, which presents a figurative composition with a strong symbolic and aesthetic bent, focused on the representation and ornamentation of the female body.
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"A Day in the Life of a Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)"
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Mário Silva's photograph is a close-up shot of extraordinary definition that captures the exotic beauty and alert posture of one of the most colorful birds in the European avifauna.
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"World Children's Day - Being a Child isn't just TODAY... it has to be ALWAYS" - Mário Silva (IA)
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This digital artwork by Mário Silva is a vibrant composition that uses geometry and symbolism to celebrate the essence of childhood.
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"The Visitation of Our Lady" - Mário Silva (IA)
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This digital work by Mário Silva is a contemporary and profoundly symbolic interpretation of one of the most tender episodes in Christian iconography, using an aesthetic that blends Cubism with sacred Expressionism.
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"Folar de Chaves" - Alfredo Cabeleira
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The painting "Folar de Chaves," by the artist Alfredo Cabeleira from Chaves, is a still life that transcends mere gastronomic representation to become a symbol of the identity and tradition of the Trás-os-Montes region.
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"The Poppy - the Red Butterfly in the Rye"
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In this macro photograph, the author isolates the vibrant and ephemeral beauty of a poppy (Papaver rhoeas) in a cultivated field.
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The poppy presents itself with its intense, satiny red petals, open asymmetrically, (...)
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