caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
iron , porto , with 14m in length by 8m high sculpture . by Ângelo de sousa at boavista avenue 29 march 2011 porto , portugal lourenço marques , portuguese mozambique portuguese 2 february 1938 escultura jpg angelo de sousa 3 -lrb- porto -rrb- . Ângelo de sousa
 Ângelo de sousa artist and professor
Ângelo de sousa

Ângelo césar cardoso de sousa -lrb- february 2 , 1938march 29 , 2011 -rrb- was a portuguese painter , sculptor , draftsman and professor , better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works .
he was seen as a scholar of light and colour who explored minimalism in new radical ways .
he was born in lourenço marques -lrb- now maputo -rrb- in 1938 and in 1955 he moved to porto where he enrolled in the school of fine artes .
it was there that he received his degree in painting with the highest mark , 20 .
his academic excellence led him , along with armando alves , jorge pinheiro and josé rodrigues , to become part of a group known as `` os quatro vintes '' -lrb- portuguese for `` the four twenties '' -rrb- .
de sousa lived and worked in porto , where he lectured in the school of fine arts -lrb- now the faculty of fine arts of the university of porto -rrb- from 1962 until 2000 , when he retired as a full professor .
prior to teaching , de sousa had his first solo exhibition in 1959 and since then his works have been shown worldwide .
in 1975 he received the international prize of the 13th são paulo art biennial and in 2007 the calouste gulbenkian foundation presented him with the gulbenkian prize .
some of his drawings illustrate books by eugénio de andrade , maria alzira seixo , mário cláudio , fiama hasse pais brandão , amongst others .
he died in his home , at the age of 73 , after battling with cancer for several months .
