Candido Portinari: top 10 works analyzed
Candido Portinari (1903-1962) was one of the two greatest Brazilian painters of all ages.
Or artist, modernist, received a series of national and international awards and portraits, like no other, much of the harsh Brazilian reality, eternalizing images as they are present in Retirees and War and peace.
1. Retirees (1944)
The most famous canvas from Portinari portrays a poor, anonymous family, composed by Victims of dry weather in Northeast Brazil. O prio nome escolhido para o quadro - Retirees - Complaint to condição e fala do anonymity of a family that represents so many others.
The personagens find themselves in fight and bear, darkened by sun hair, frágeis, victims of northeastern aridity. Um dos meninos mais novos shows a distended belly caused by vermic hairs (also called a belly of water).
There is a funereal climate in the image of highlighted hairs used (cinza, brown and black). We do not observe carcaças, a desert landscape, semi vegetation, with urubus flying over the farm that seems to be waiting for the death of the family.
OR portrait of misery It was painted by Portinari in Petropolis and it eternalizes those who live in sub-human conditions and need to emigrate in order to survive.
A canvas, which is on display no MASP, was painted in oil and measures 190 by 180 cm.
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2. War and peace (1955)
Em War and peace or face painter, use of geometric shapes and lines, taking on personagens on postage and povoando as fabrics with many people.
A leitura da imagem referring to peace and the image referring to war can be feita pela expressão das personagens That I come from or half (in war) I tied or relief (in peace). The tons used in two representations are also different.
In war, Portinari resolved to innovate and, instead of symbolizing or fighting through the representation of soldiers in battle, as was traditionally feito, escolheu portray a series of images do povo em sauce.
He was commissioned as a painter in 1952. A huge work (each panel is 14 meters high by 10 meters long and weighs more than 1 ton) was present from the Brazilian government for the UN headquarters in Nova Iorque.
War and Peace represent sem dúvida or melhor work that já fiz. I dedicate you to humanity.
Candido Portinari (1957)
Portinari has a space available of 280 square meters for breeding and commencement or planning of the senior project, making 180 studies with designs and models. On the 6th of September 1957, the caixotes with the work were officially delivered in an official ceremony to the UN.
War and peace It can be admired in the hall of the UN headquarters, in Nova Iorque, and it measures 14 meters high by 20 meters long.
3. Or coffee washer (1934)
Among the most frequent themes of Portinari were rural workers with their daily activities. AND Or coffee washer You are the most consecrated works of the line of productions.
Repair as or painter highlights physical characteristics The strength of the coffee worker through the valorization of two members - the arms and legs show muscular contours, from which they work in the field daily.
Or an anonymous protagonist is a portrayed coffee operator, not his local work with his ferramenta - a enxada - na mão direita, as he is doing a lavoura pause.
Ao inverse of olhar for or portrait painter, porém, or unfamiliar worker look at paisagem. Behind his body we see, ao found, a coffee plantation.
A canvas painted in oil finds-sheltered not MASP and tem 100 by 81cm.
To know more about this work, read: Analyze Or coffee washerby Candido Portinari
4. Mestiço (1934)
Mestiço This is a beautiful portrait of an anonymous homem, in no trunk. Pela its physiognomy, we see that the result gives a mixture of two different povos that compose a Brazilian society. O nome do quadro sublinha, aliás, essa nossa origem hybrid, fruit of different origins (European, black and Indian).
Or young people who have not been identified are probably not their local workplaces, at the farm we observe an uninhabited rural landscape with plantations and banana trees. Or homem face or painter and, consequently, or spectator. As his feições de him are dated, as well as his imposing body posture, of crossed arms.
Portinari teve special attention nessa painting for the details, repair as the muscles are Turned and like there is an attention to the shadow, I do not play light and I added details like the wrinkles on our fingers more days.
Mestiço It is an oil on canvas measuring 81 by 65 cm and can be seen in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
5. Or coffee (1935)
Portinari was contemporary and testemunhou or golden period of coffee in Brazil, many of his fabrics recorded, therefore, this moment of our history.
Além de fazer portraits of individual workers, or painter criou composições like acima, collectives, flagranting different moments of the non-coffee production.
Here are more than two workers who are disproportionate when compared to the rest of the body, isso was intentionally a painter, who wanted emphasize questão da força da mão de obra braçal involved nesse type of trade.
To cloth Or coffee It was awarded internationally (it was the first international painter prize) after being exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in Nova Iorque.
O work is an oil on canvas measuring 130 by 195 cm and part of the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, not Rio De Janeiro.
6. Criança morta (1944)
With a theme and a similar style as Retirees, to fabric Criança morta It was painted not the same year as the most famous work of Candido Portinari.
Nessa composition or public also introduced to a family that needs face fome, misery and dry not northeast.
We see the image center or corpse of a family member that lost life, probably due to extreme conditions to which the body was submissive. The high infant mortality perpetuated by Portinari was relatively frequent during a long period in the northern region of Brazil.
Not quadro Criança morta All sofrem to lose and choram, more or adult who runs or body nem dry achieves olhar to face, to his corporal expression and of absolute despair.
Criança morta Visiting public hair or MASP can be admired. On canvas, painted with oil ink, item 182 by 190 cm.
7. A first missa no Brasil (1948)
Candido Portinari took a liberdade de fazer uma free interpretation of the first missa in only Brazilian And it did not worry about limiting historical records to what had been the first celebration in the country.
Na su leitura desse event, or painter escolheu abusing live hearts by using geometric lines. A cloth was raised when I am not Uruguai, exiled for political reasons (Portinari was a communist and was persecuted by the Brazilian government).
A peça was commissioned in 1946 by Thomaz Oscar Pinto da Cunha Saavedra for the Banco Boavista headquarters (bank that he presides over). Or square, huge, should be sheltered in the mezzanine of a property designed by Niemeyer located in the center of Rio de Janeiro.
In 2013, or work, which passed through the years of the great public, I was bought government hair and passed to see part of the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. The panel was 2.71 m by 5.01 m and was made with oil ink.
8. Paisagem com bananeiras (1927)
With a language quite different and little known public hair, Paisagem com bananeiras He ended up falling apart because he distanced himself aesthetically from the rest of the work of the Brazilian painter.
Portinari pintou essa fabric ainda no princípio da carreira using simple traços in order to portray a typically Brazilian rural landscape with banana trees.
To give life to your fez fabric, use a range of more restricted colors (going from blue to green and then or to earth), opting for a more smooth and flat composition.
Na fabric has not animated beings - nem homens, nem animais - leaving in sight for the spectator just a bucolic natural landscape empty.
Or oil painting item 27 by 22cm on the face part of a private collection.
9. Dance na roça (1923)
Dance na roça It is extremely important to the work of the painter because it was the first canvas with a national theme. She was raised when Portinari was barely 20 years old and was studying at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro.
The plain and dark background highlights the characters - colorful dancers in pairs and band components.
In the image we find a typical popular dance, by Campesinos, from his city, Brodósqui, not the interior of São Paulo. About the creation of the cloth restou a story, found in correspondence of the painter:
"When I started to paint, I felt that I was going to fazer to minha people and cheguei to fazer or" baile na Roça "."
A work that Portinari so esteemed chegou to be challenged in the Salão Oficial da Escola de Belas Artes of 1924 because it was not compatible with his aesthetics of his tempo. Frustrated, or young, I decided to leave for another genre of painting, more dedicated to academic portraits.
Or work went missing for more than fifty years to the painter's sadness. Dance na roça It is an oil on canvas with 97 by 134 cm and belongs to a private collection.
10. Meninos releasing pipe (1947)
Em Meninos releasing pipe we see four children celebrating freedom, jumping de um passatempo traditional timeless - releasing pipe.
On the fabric we do not see the expressões das crianças, by the expressão corporal we hardly observe that the children run lightly taking advantage or late afternoon.
A smooth and unfocused landscape, it is feita em degraded with arid tons, giving a prominence to older children, colorful with their pipes.
Portinari has some other pictures as the same title and similar images and a certain fixation in portraying children jumping, second or painter:
"Do you know why did he paint so much menino em gangorra e balanço? For botá-los no ar, feito anjos. "
To cloth Meninos releasing pipe face part of a private collection, made in oil ink and item 60 by 74 cm.
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