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Sao Tome and Principe: Life and Work of the Naïve Artist Canarim

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Arts & Culture, History

Portuguese teacher MJ Falcão, from the blog O Falcao de Jade, writes [1] [pt] about the life and work of Pascoal Viegas, “one of the greatest Naïve painters of Sao Tome and Principe”. Pascoal Viegas, known as Canarim or Sum Canalim, lived during the colonial times, in the 19th century.