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Forest II

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones earthy, red, ochre, green, white, yellow, blue, gray and black. Smooth texture and light effects shaved that define the hair of animals. Composition representing animals in a forest. In the foreground, center, Dane, with hair in shades of light brown with patches of darker shade, standing in profile to the left. It standing ears and mouth secure a dead white bird standing with his head down, one of the wings is half open and the other as they broken with the tip facing down. In the lower corner of the composition, tuff stylized plants, suggesting some tropical flowers. In the background, center, forest tree that you see only the torso; on a branch of it, to the left there is a scarlet macaw with Blue Wing Inn. On the third level, we see more tree trunks symmetrically diagonal and perspective to the bottom; on the right, a profile doe on the right with the head facing forward, and on the left three small pacas, side by side, in profile to the right. In the background, beyond the trunks of the trees, we see still on the right, three dogs, side by side profile to the left, running with straight legs and in the air. Throughout the earthy of the forest that is in reddish brown tone there are small tufts of plants, some pitas, including stylized flowers. Might falling from from the front of the composition illuminating the Dane, the deer and the foreground plants.

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  • Title: Forest II
  • 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
  • Physical Dimensions: w139 x h159cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:spotted cavy, Nature:Animals:macaw, Nature:Animals:dog, Nature:Animals:agouti, Nature:Animals:deer, Nature:landscape:forest
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "C.PORTINARI 1938"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1694
  • Function: Work executed to decorate a dining room wall in the residence of José Thomaz and Maria do Carmo Nabuco, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-919
Projeto Portinari

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