A Life Immersed in Surrealism: The World of Cruzeiro Seixas Artur Manuel Rodrigues do Cruzeiro Seixas, known simply as Cruzeiro Seixas, was a figure who resisted easy categorization—a “man who paints,” as he preferred to be called rather than a painter, and a profoundly influential Portuguese poet. Born in Amadora, Portugal, in 1920, and passing away in Lisbon in 2020 at the remarkable age of 99, Seixas’s long life was deeply interwoven with the evolution of surrealism, not merely as an artistic style but as a philosophical stance against convention and a passionate exploration of the subcon…