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Composition in green tones (predominant), red, blue, gray, black, yellow, mauve, ochre and earthy. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Not figurative composition formed by irregular areas and of various sizes containing colorful shapes and crossed by straight bands in shades of ochre and earthy, finishing hook against dark background in shades of green, seeing themselves at the bottom on the right kind of meshed black against dark blue background. On the left, one sees two uneven areas, the top one is smaller and contains a red circle with two bands around, the bottom is larger and contains smaller form in red. On the right and irregular greater area than the other containing a small black zigzag horizontally, a red rounded shape and in an irregular and lilac. At the upper right corner are seen two smaller areas: one in the form of lying almost isosceles triangle containing shapes in green and red and other geometric figure resembling five-sided, containing area in gray, black, blue and red. The tracks crossing the composition are superimposed on these uneven areas.

Details

  • Title: Water
  • 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
  • Physical Dimensions: w250 x h200cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: non-figurative
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1763
  • Function: Work executed to decorate a clearing room in the minister’s office at the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.. Four Elements
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2404

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