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Rice Harvest

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in light shades of ochre, earthy, green and gray. Thick texture and marked brushstrokes. It depicts two boys pounding rice field lanscape. In the foreground, the center, a sort of slightly rectangular table on the left diagonal to on the right, front to back. Behind the table, you see boy standing in front with his arms up and folded back, suggesting to be holding a long beam which see the tips above the boy's head. Across the table, a little to the right, back figure with arms up and bent back holding a long bundle of rice feet. The entire floor area is covered by suggestion grouped rice feet. In the background, to the left, some on the left diagonal to on the right, front to back, seeing himself behind it, a calf, a bull and a cow, side by side, which seem to observe the two working boys. Background with planting, looking to the left and the center a coffee plantation and on the right, corn planting and rice.

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  • Title: Rice Harvest
  • 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: 1957
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w179 x h139cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating rice, social:workers:farm hand, Nature:Animals:calf, Nature:Animals:ox, Nature:Animals:cow, human figure:man
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 57"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1083
  • Function: Work executed to decorate the dining room in the residence of Homero Souza e Silva, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Work designed by architect Carlos Leão.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4141
Projeto Portinari

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