Fausto Sampaio was born in Alféolas, Anadia in 1893. The hearing disability that struck him at 22 months of age made him deaf-mute, but this didn’t prevent him from having a great sensitivity to express himself through
painting. He reaches the peak of his artistic career in the decades of 30 and 40 of the 20th century, when he carried out much of his works in the overseas provinces and that earned him the title of Pintor do Imperio.
In some provinces he was only passing through, in Macau and S. Tomé, he took longer and became a resident. Fausto Sampaio, a unique artist of the naturalist period on the transition to modernism. He was the master
of a sound technique and an enormous sensitivity, and he was an impressionist of great versatility and a innate landscape painter, with unique works of art where fast brush strokes and the extreme talent with the
spatula allowed him to capture the impression of the moments, almost tangible instants, making them last forever.
A pupil of Jules Renard, he shone through the refined use of colour and by the predominance of illuminated or misty atmospheres.
This composition with objects of the daily life in ochre, dry green, orange and grey tones, with the use of subtle crusts and movement between tones of strenuous execution, results from an astounding sensibility,
as a result of great mastery and experience, where the purpose of decoration assumes the Portuguese colours, namely his land, Anadia – Bairrada.
Fausto Sampaio was also the “painter of the Empire”, as he painted all the former Portuguese colonies, demonstrating that the national presence was solid and concrete in those distant lands and creating a cultural
bond between the Portuguese metropolis and the former colonies in a nationalistic language. This was achieved by resorting to naturalism as the artistic school that, at the time, assumed the mirror of the Fatherland.
A West-East dialogue with the colours of a centuries-old Globality.
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