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Construction of Highway IV

Candido Portinari1936

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray tones (predominant), white, black, blue, ochre and earthy. Smooth texture. Via Dutra lanscape in the stretch of the Serra das Araras, as if being viewed through a lens approach, seeing himself on the left a worker. The predominance of gray tones and contrast of light and dark volumes give the paint composition of photographic characteristics. On the left, black worker, back, 3/4 facing right, seated, with his head cut off by the top edge of the support. wears light shirt with rolled up sleeves and light pants too. Has his on the right arm stretched down, a bit away from the body, with hand on the place where you would be sitting. He is facing toward the road that is at the center of the composition, perspective to the bottom, seeing leans slightly winding on the left. The road is divided into two tracks by black belt, the on the left is outlined by the curb and on the right by the curb with guardrail. To the left, we see rock and on the right in the corner of the composition, of an overpass with reinforced concrete structure. At the bottom, on the left and on the right, lower planes, hills and stretches of road. Intense blue band on "degrade" clearing toward the horizon.

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  • Title: Construction of Highway IV
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1936
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w768 x h96cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:civil construction, social:ethnic groups:Black, social:workers:factory worker, Nature:landscape:highway, human figure:man
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed in bottom right corner "C.PORTINARI". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1746
  • Notes: Support spliced vertically.. Signature added by Rubem Cassa, at the artist’s request, after the panel’s installation in the Monumento Rodoviário.
  • Function: Work executed to decorate main lobby of the Monumento Rodoviário on Presidente Dutra Highway, Piraí, RJ.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-573
Projeto Portinari

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