CANDIDO PORTINARI
(1903-1962)
He was born in a small village named Brodowsky, S. Paulo, Brazil.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. When his trained finished, he went to Paris staying there a few years. In Paris knew the woman of his life, Maria Martinelli also an artist.
He returned to Brazil without having sucumbed to any particular influence.
He was commissioned to do a number of large murals. His panels War and Peace in the United Nations building in New York was inaugurated without him. The USA policy didn't allowed his presence because he was a comunist!
Portinari glorified the life of the Brazilian people, the cangaceiros, the vaqueiros, the retirantes. His ardent spirit expands in compositions that at times recall the art of Goya or Picasso in their cruel lyricism and brutal expressionism.
He painted more than five thousand canvases in a style near cubism, near surrealism, also near the mexican muralists but in the end, he was really himself.
He died in 1962 victim of intoxication by the lead on his paints, specially in the yellow and white.
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| "colhedores de café" |
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| "o flautista" |
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| "frevo" |
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| "mulher e crianças", 1940 |
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| "circo", 1957 |
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| "quarteto de musicos" |
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| "espantalho", 1940 |
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| "os retirantes" |
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| "o mestiço" |
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| "samba", 1956 |
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| "retrato de João Candido com cavalo", 1941 |
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| "três amigas no morro" |
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| Painel de azulejos, Igreja S.Francisco de Assis, Belo Horizonte, 1944 |
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| "favela", 1942 |
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