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Rubber

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray tones, ochre, green, earthy, white and yellow. Smooth texture with visible brush strokes. Color was used to serve as a road map in the execution of mural by setting only, large colored areas. The figures are outlined there is no trace defined physiognomy. The composition is rubber extraction It depicts with forest background suggestion. In the foreground, to the left, back man with his on the right arm raised with small ax in hand, in a position to whittle tree trunk, which is in front, enabling the extraction of latex raw material, rubber. In the center, still in the foreground, lying dog's profile to the left and the on the right, so suggesting a form of rubber pellet. In the background, on the left, profile man on the left pressing the pellet rubber head. The center triangular shape with rounded corners, suggesting an oven and the smoke that comes from within and it involves something that is the end of a long stick, which is held by a man who is facing the on the right. In the third plan and the background, repeating the foreground figure (back man). The fund is divided into regular geometric areas. Below the color project, which is pasted on card, see to the left, a range of numbered color and on the right pasted photograph of a study coal representing the figure standing in the background, on the right (front man) of the composition.

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  • Title: Rubber
  • 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: w50 x h70cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:rubber tapping, social:workers:rubber tapper, Nature:Animals:dog, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: gouache , lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 54
  • Inscription: Numbers on image correspond to numbers in color scale. Montage by the artist on cardboard. Numbers throughout image correspond to scale of colors located at bottom left. At bottom right, photograph of the drawing "Man” [FCO 141]. On reverse of cardboard, authentication, and on back of frame, inscription "DN 696,” both by Maria Portinari.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Rubber” [FCO 1758]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-906
Projeto Portinari

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