Cais da Farinha, Paris

Cais da Farinha, carry us on the banks of the Seine, in Paris, the capital where the artist meets for the second time, now for a period of five years (1921-1926), and already with a path marked by the influence of his master of the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon and a naturalistic tradition, incorporated by Malhoa and Columbano. Technically, ready to develop new paths and to emancipate himself from the academic demands, Dórdio Gomes has joined the pictorial movement which will mark the history of European painting and open himself to the new constructive and formal concerns developed by Paul Cézanne, the postmodernist. This painting is an exercise of landscaping, in which the author paints outdoors, like the Impressionists did, in front of the motif, providing the chromatic changes of nature, at the precise moment of a day of charged atmospheric environment, in a scenario of distant perspective, making the outline of the horizon stand out, the silhouette of Notre-Dame. The right bank of the river, on rolling, winding earth, occupies the foreground of the observer, in search of the objects present, such as the car and boats moored in the waters of the Seine.