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Threshold of Shadow
Candido Portinari1945
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition unidentified tones. Contour lines, intersecting and shaded. Stylized representation of one face, half hidden by geometrical forms, suggesting screens, abstract shapes and line suggesting barbed wire. The faces are shown in bright areas, especially the eyes from where stone tears, with figures that appear to be upside down.
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Details
- Title: Threshold of Shadow
- 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: 1945
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:group:men, human figure:limbs:head
- Technique: medium unidentified
- Signature: Signature? Date?
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 4836
- Function: Illustration for the poem Porta de sombra, by Aníbal M. Machado
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2445
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