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Landscape with Scarecrow and Vultures

Candido Portinari1944

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray, yellow, earthy, blue, white, black and red. Smooth texture. It depicts the open lanscape dusk with scarecrow, buzzards and ox bones. To the right of the composition, scarecrow in reinforced beam tilted to the right, using clothes with drapery flowing in black shades, black and red. In the center of the field, wood piles driven into the ground in perspective for background with vultures perched on top. To the left, steer skull with horns in blue tones and white. In the sky vultures flying. Floor area in shades earthy, occupying a support height of the room. Sky in shades "degrade" ash, clearing up the yellow tones on the horizon.

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  • Title: Landscape with Scarecrow and Vultures
  • 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: 1944
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w48 x h32.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:scarecrow, Nature:Animals:vulture, Nature:Animals:skeleton, Nature:landscape:desert
  • Technique: gouache
  • Signature: Initialed at bottom right "CP.". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4411
  • Function: Set design for the Iara Ballet
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2157
Projeto Portinari

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