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"Archimedes da Silva Santos left us.Today, in Lisbon, at the age of 98, the doctor Dr. Arquimedes da Silva Santos, specialist in child neuropsychiatry, introducer in Portugal of Education through Art, died. He was a poet, writer and essayist, and author of an extensive literary work.As a university student in Coimbra, she had a great theatrical and literary activity with names such as Fernando Namora, Joaquim Namorado, Fernando Lopes Graça, João José Cochofel and Eduardo Lourenço.With Alves Redol, Dias Lourenço and others, he created, even before his stay in Coimbra, the neorealist movement in Vila Franca de Xira, a precursor of the movement at national level.Member of the Communist Party was in exile in Paris during the Estado Novo.He had a prominent role in various organizations related to Artistic Intervention and Art Education, namely the Portuguese Association for Education through Art, the Child Support Institute, the Portuguese Association of Music Education, and the Portuguese Association of Music Therapy, as well as at the Promotional Association of the Neo-Realism Museum.It was awarded by the Presidency of the Republic:in 1998: Commander of the Order of Infante D. Henrique “For the relevant pedagogical and teaching activity, in particular for his action in the field of pedopsychiatry and for his committed intervention in favor of the development of art in education and art education”in 2001: Grand Cross of the Order of Public Instruction. "