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Field of Rice

Candido Portinari1947

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in light shades of yellow, blue, red, ochre, green, orange, rose and white. Rough and smooth texture, marked strokes. Rice cut It depicts representation, seeing four peasants amidst the plantation, against the background of blue hills, sunshine yellow and orange and colorful sky. In the foreground, planting detail in shades of green, yellow and white on the left, and clay path in ochre and red tones that extends from the left to the right and from bottom to bottom, narrower side, extending substantially at the middle of the composition. It is flanked by planting that as it enters the path to the left and on the right, triangular in tip (more pronounced on the right). Planting determined by areas of greenery surrounded the regular vegetation. Continuous areas in yellow and white tones with splashes of orange suggest rice field, seeing in the second and third planes, on the left near the center, four peasants from the front, with the body from the waist down, covered by crops. The first peasant wears blue hat, has a face represented in red, with no defined facial features, dress shirt with half sleeve with round neckline around the neck, bent on the left arm with his hand up to the left shoulder holding represented sickle in blue and white . In the background, representing blue hills taking all the width of the composition, with planting hill above on the right, and sky in shades of orange, blue, white, yellow, rose and ochre, with sun on the right.

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  • Title: Field of Rice
  • 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: 1947
  • Physical Dimensions: w73 x h60cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating rice, social:workers:peasant, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 947"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2316
  • Inscription: On stretcher, inscriptions "858/68 LÚCIA L(?) SOUZA”, "NORBERTO OF 18” and "SOUZA 2827 Fundo (?) espongeado com 2 x 6 OF para dentro NORBERTO”. On back of frame, label "71”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2608
Projeto Portinari

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