Deolinda Fonseca (born 1954 in Porto) is a Portuguese painter who, since 1979, has primarily worked in Denmark. She is known for her oil paintings of mostly abstract themes with hints of realistic images. She also paints portraits in which she combines realistic representation with abstract expressionism.
Fonseca graduated as a painter and sculptor at Faculdade de Belas-Artes do Porto in 1979, and she has lived in Denmark since then.
In 2002, she received Portugal's medal of honor, the "Order of Prince Henry" (in Portuguese, "Ordem do Infante D. Henrique"), a type of knighthood. She has exhibited throughout Denmark and Portugal, as well as in other European countries, and her work is displayed in museums, embassies and private collections in Europe and the United States.
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Sinne Lundgaard Rasmussen, a Danish writer on art, has praised the "strength" of her paintings, saying that "Painter and paint meet in the painting, and this is where we find Deolinda Fonseca."
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Based in part on a translation of an entry to Deolinda Fonseca in the Portuguese Wikipedia