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Shantytown

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones (predominant), gray, red, white and ochre. Rough texture, marked strokes and transparency effects. Fully geometrical shapes juxtaposed and superimposed. Occupying the whole area of ​​the composition slum representation can be distinguished from the geometrical construction six windows, there being a figure in each of five of these windows. In the upper half, faint diagonal line from upper on the left down almost to the middle of the on the right composition. This appears to delimit a hill or a slum, separating it from the other, which would be in the background.

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  • Title: Shantytown
  • 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: 1957
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w67 x h57cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:shanty town, human figure:figure
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 57"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2339
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4189
Projeto Portinari

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