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Couple Walking

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Contour lines and predominance of shaded. It depicts couple walking. The figures are part defined by contour lines and shaded by part. They are standing in front, turned slightly to the left. Cutting the composition width, skip the half-moon shape, like a flash of light, which cuts the body of the figures. On the left, man holding flower in his on the left hand, with the flexed arm and forward, on the right leg forward and hidden on the left behind the woman, and part of its trunk is not visible, as if behind the faixo light. He has a long face, esvoaçados hair back and defined facial features. On the right, the woman passing the on the right arm under the man's arm. In place of the head, the woman has a crescent moon embedded in the neck. She's legs apart, as if walking, wears dress with full skirt, billowing. Front on the left, vegetation suggestion. Background shading and of suggesting the horizon.

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  • Title: Couple Walking
  • 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: 1938
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:landscape:metaphysics, human figure:couple
  • Technique: oil , India ink pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4587
  • Function: Illustration for �Poema lírico,� from the book �As metamorfoses,� by Murilo Mendes
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-955
Projeto Portinari

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