This document discusses Portuguese painter and potter Manuel Cargaleiro. It notes that he studied ceramics in Italy and France on scholarships, and developed his work further at the Gien Faience Factory in France, sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. As a painter, Cargaleiro was known for his ornamental and decorative style in two-dimensional works like Portuguese tiles, and as a potter he is considered an artist for his signed and dated tiles.

2.  Portuguese painter and potter
 Born in Vila Velha Rodão in
1927

3. Career development
 He attended the Science College in Lisbon
University, as well as free classes at the
Academy of Fine Arts and José Trindade
Pottery Study
 He was a teacher of ceramics at the School
of Decorative Arts António Arroio.
Escola de
Artes
Decorativas
António Arroio

4.  He studied ceramics in Faenza, Rome
and Florence with an Italian
Government scholarship.
 He developed his work later in Gien
Faience Factory in France, sponsored
by the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation.

5. His Paintings…
 In his paintings we can distinguish an
ornamental and decorative sense, the
choice of two-dimensionality and the denial
of depth.
 He produced earthenware squares, the
Portuguese Azulejo (tiles), an art that still
has its importance in Portugal, brought by
the Arabs to the Iberian peninsula.

6.  The spontaneity of brushstroke dominates
in his tiles.
 His signed and dated tiles are considered
real pieces of art.

7. His work…
 Cargaleiro’s work shows the extraversion,
brightness, optimism and sensuality of the
Mediterranean character.

8. Done by:
Class 6thB
Escola Básica e Secundária de Maceira