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Maria José Oliveira (born 1943) is a Portuguese artist. Beginning as a ceramicist she extended her art to include drawing, collage, jewellery, sculpture, and installation. She has had many solo exhibitions and her works have been included in several important group exhibitions. [1]
Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas , in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry.
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Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework. Azulejos are found on the interior and exterior of churches , palaces , ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway ...
"The notion of folk objects tends to emphasize the handmade over machine manufactured. Folk objects imply a mode of production common to preindustrial communal society where knowledge and skills were personal and traditional." [7] Folk art does not need to be old; it continues to be hand-crafted today in many regions around the world.
The word azulejo in Portuguese and Spanish, referring to a style of painted tile in Portugal and Spain, derives from the word zillīj. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In Spain, the mosaic tile technique used in historical Islamic monuments like the Alhambra is also referred to as alicatado , a Spanish word deriving from the Arabic verb qata'a ( ﻗَﻄَﻊَ ...
Azulejo, a form of painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework; Portuguese pavement, a traditional-style pavement used in pedestrian areas; Adufe, a square tambourine; Ukulele, string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii; Gaita transmontana, a type of Portuguese bagpipe; Galician gaita, a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe.