The International Colloquia «Empire and Colonial Art» is based on the idea that it is necessary to reflect on how the journeying between the former European colonies and the metropole inspired the creation of an art that took root not only in Portugal but which was also structured in and by the former overseas provinces. Taking as its starting point the growing visibility of the theme at an international level, and with the project incorporated within a framework encapsulated within Contemporary Art History that takes into account the specificities of the national culture, we propose to reflect on the triangle of ‘Travel – Colonial Artistic Creation – Contemporary Culture’ not only from the viewpoint of the European geo-political context but also from perspectives of an authorial world view that allows a change in the paradigm.

Thematic panels marked from XVIII to XX century:

The Cultural Policy of European Colonial Empires

Representation of Colonial Art in Metropolis

Repercussions of Colonial Influence in Artistic Creation of Ex-Colonies

Routes and Discourses of the Pictorial Colonial

Organization