Candido portinari biografia
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Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari (Brodósqui, SP-1903 / Rio de Janeiro, RJ-1962)
Expressionist painter, engraver, illustrator and teacher.
Candido Portinari was one of the most famous Brazilian painters. Portinari painted almost five thousand works (from small sketches and paintings of standard proportions such as The Coffee Farmer to gigantic murals, such as the panels War and Peace, gifted to the UN headquarters in New York in 1956 and which in December 2010, thanks to the efforts of his son, returned to be exhibited at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro). He also stood out in the areas of poetry and politics.
Candido Portinari
During his career, he studied at the School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro; He visited many countries, including Spain, France and Italy, where he completed his studies.
In 1935 he received an award in New York for his work "Café". From that moment on, his work became known worldwide.
Among his works, the following stand out: "The First Mass in Brazil", "São Francisco de Assis" and Tiradentes". His most famous portraits are: his self-portr
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Candido Portinari
20th-century Brazilian painter
Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
Portinari painted more than five thousand canvases, from small sketches to monumental works such as the Guerra e Paz panels, which were donated to the United Nations Headquarters in 1956. Portinari developed a social preoccupation throughout his oeuvre and maintained an active life in the Brazilian cultural and political worlds.
Life and career
Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Chiampo Vicenza, Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo.[1] Growing up on a coffee plantation of dark soil and blue sky, Portinari gained his inspiration from the homeland he loved. In the majority of his later paintings, murals and frescoes, he used the colour blue and many browns and reds because this was the color of his home.
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Candido Portinari was born on 29 December 1903 on the Santa Rosa coffee plantation in the state of São Paulo to a humble family of Veneto origin who had emigrated to Brazil some time before.
From an early age he showed a talent for painting, moving to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 15 to attend the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes where he began to concentrate on portraiture.
In 1928 he won the European Travel award and went to Paris, where he developed his artistic identity.
In the 1930s, he consolidated his fame with numerous solo exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, but it was in 1940, at the MoMa in New York, that his career reached its peak, with the solo show Portinari of Brazil.
He portrayed human drama, elevating his message to a universal meaning, as can be seen in his three works Café, O Labrador de Café and Retirantes.
His paintings are loved and displayed in all the most important international galleries.
He died in 1962 at the age of just 59, poisoned by paint, after a life dedicated to art and the complet
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