The formation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul

During the 1950s, under Ernesto Dornelles, Aldo Locatelli, who had recently arrived in Brazil, was commissioned to create one of the greatest murals painted by the artist. The Work should summarize the formation of the state according to the thinking of the time.

In the foreground, we have a family composed of mother, father and children around a fire pit. The image represents the basis of the state grounded in family values.

In the left corner, between cattle, we can see field workers linked to livestock. The primordial triad of the state:  family, agriculture and livestock.

At the top we see a group of pioneers. With their trailblazing gazes, one of them points the way. They represent the conquests and territorial expansion for the glory of Portugal - according to the hegemonic thinking at the time.

In a prominent place at the top, is the figure of the indigenous person. Its presence at the time generated controversy, since for a current of historians of the period, everything related to the indigenous would be linked to Spain, and not to the Lusitanian matrix.

Jumping over the the state map, and restarting the cyclical narrative of the mural is the figure of the gaucho. There is a power tower, an element that would have been commissioned by the governor from the painter, as it was an achievement of his management.