ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights the relevance of the London experience in providing a methodological and conceptual framework which the artists discussed could not find in the conservative and discouraging environment of artistic training in Portugal. It shows how migration configured post-war Europe and contributed to the formation of networks of cultural and artistic exchange that surpassed diplomatic discourse, international propaganda or practical political understandings. Migration therefore conveys a perspective that is profoundly rooted in subjective experience and collective engagement. The book demonstrates artists were in fact interested in different cultural and artistic expressions and through their creative activity they brought together a multicoloured universe of references, that articulated not only the mainstream currents from the artistic scenes of London and Paris, but also cultural heritage from the Iberian Peninsula.
