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  Portinari Murals (Hispanic Reading Room, Hispanic Division, Area Studies)
MacLeish, Portinari planned the themes of the four large paintings and shortly afterwards presented gouache sketches that were approved by the Librarian and the Architect of the Capitol, David Lynn.
To enable Portinari to execute the murals, a fund equal to that already appropriated by the Brazilian Government was obtained from the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
Characteristically, Portinari's first painting, Discovery of the Land, is dominated not by captains or the admirals or the priests of the conquest but by the common sailors who manned the fleet.
www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/portinari.html   (1105 words)

  
 Brazil - BRAZZIL - Candido Portinari Revisited - Brazilian Art - March 1998
Portinari was born in an little town called Brodowski, in the state of São Paulo, on December 13, 1903.
Portinari resisted a plastic renovation and provoked a delay in the development of Brazilian art." Nevertheless he recognizes his importance as modern, according to the conservative limits in vigor in the Brazilian society of that time.
Portinari died when he was only 59 years old, as a result of intoxication by the lead on his paints, especially in the yellow and white, that he insisted in using even though his doctors had advised him not to.
www.brazil-brasil.com /p44mar98.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Cândido Portinari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 - February 6, 1962) was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
Born of Italian immigrants in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA) in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1928 he won a gold medal at the ENBA and a trip to Paris where he stayed until 1930, when he returned to Brazil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candido_Portinari   (167 words)

  
 Candido Portinari - his life and work
Candido Portinari was born on December 30, 1903, on a coffee farm near Brodósqui, a town in the state of São Paulo.
These works, taken as a whole and in terms of their artistic conception, were decisive for the evolution of Portinari's art, underscoring the option for social themes that was to be the hallmark of all his later work.
Candido Portinari died on February 6, 1962, while preparing a great exhibition with about 200 works that had been proposed by the city of Milan.
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 Projeto Portinari
To enable Portinari to execute the murals, a fund equal to that already appropriated by the Brazilian Government was obtained from the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs through the good offices of the Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations, composed of Messrs.
Candido Portinari began to paint on the walls of the Hispanic Foundation late in October, assisted by his brother Luiz, who had come from Rio de Janeiro especially for the undertaking.
Candido Portinari: Brazilian artist as cultural Ambassadorurals by Candido Portinari in the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress.
www.portinari.org.br /ppsite/ppacervo/library.asp   (491 words)

  
 Cândido Portinari (English Version)
1903: Cândido Portinari is born in Brodósqui, São Paulo, Brazil - 1912: Collaborates in the painting of the Church of Brodósqui.
Portinari, as well as many others intellectuals, is interrogated by the police.
Portinari believes that his painting is still the best form to disseminate ideas, even though these might, sometimes, get him into trouble.
www.vidaslusofonas.pt /candido_portinari2.htm   (2694 words)

  
 Cândido Portinari
Portinari is without doubt the Brazilian modernist painter best known outside Brazil, author of the two great panels (on the themes of war and peace respectively) in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York (1957).
Portinari also produced murals and mosaic panels, for some of the earliest projects of modern architecture in Brazil, among them the former Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro (original design by Le Corbusier) and the Pampulha Church by Oscar Niemeyer in Belo Horizonte (1944/45).
Portinari was a very gifted artist, a fine draftsman and colourist, and the possessor of an impeccable technique.
www.mre.gov.br /cdbrasil/itamaraty/web/ingles/artecult/artespla/artistas/candidop/apresent.htm   (415 words)

  
 Candido Portinari (1903 - 1962) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Born in Italy, Candido Portinari preferred to paint Brazilian subjects, often workers and peasants.
While in Europe from 1928 to 1931, he was inspired by Picasso’s paintings from the 1920’s and much of his work show similarities to those pieces.
Portinari, Cândido - Quadros e Biografia, Pintura, Exposição, Vida e Obra
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 Culture & Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The catalogue of the complete works of Candido Portinari is the first publication of its kind in Latin America.
This presentation criterion is recommended by the Portinari Project as the most appropriate for viewing the artist's overall work.
With this work, the Portinari Project got the Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade award from the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN) in the Catalogue Inventory and Research category in 2005, and the first place in the Architecture and Urbanism, Photography, Communications and Arts in the 47th Jabuti Award.
www2.petrobras.com.br /CulturaEsporte/ingles/cultura/ArtesVisuais/portinari.htm   (174 words)

  
 Biography of Cândido Portinari | Life of Cândido Portinari
The Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari (1903-1962) is best known for his murals, which fuse nativist and expressionist elements in a powerful and individual style.Cândido Portinari was born of Italian immigrant parents in the town of Brodosque in the coffee-rich state of São Paulo.
Especially striking are the frenzied pattern and grasping gestures that depict mining activity.
In the Crying Woman, one of his late paintings, he uses somber and muted colors to convey deep emotion; the facial features are barely suggested, and the hands and forearms are greatly exaggerated, creating a powerful effect.
www.essayboom.com /biographies/Cacircndido_Portinari-27840.html   (316 words)

  
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Portinari studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro.
His painting Coffee (National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro) revealed an interest in the expression of plastic form that became a dominant factor in his subsequent works.
In the 1940s Portinari turned to a more fluid and expressionistic style, touched with surrealism, as in the series of frescoes in the Hispanic Foundation, and the Library of Congress and in paintings such as the Scarecrow (Museum of Modern Art, New York City).
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 Portinari J.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A former graduate of the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and an Engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, in Paris, France, Dr. Portinari is a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, USA.
The Portinari Project has been engaged in research on the work, life and times of the late Brazilian artist Candido Portinari (1903-1962), as a full-time, team-oriented endeavour, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, since 1979.
Born and raised in the University, the Portinari Project' methodology will undoubtedly help many similar projects which focus on the work, life and times of an individual, not only for its own sake, but also as an instrument geared at understanding the main concerns of his/her generation: its aesthetical, artistic, cultural, social and political outlook.
www2.iicm.edu /0x811bc833_0x000dcab4#0x811bc833_0x000fb14f   (234 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Portinari, Cândido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
His painting Coffee (1935; National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro) revealed an interest in the expression of plastic form that became a dominant factor in his subsequent works.
Portinari turned (c.1940) to a more fluid and expressionistic style, touched with surrealism, as in the series of frescoes in the Hispanic Foundation, and the Library of Congress and in paintings such as the Scarecrow (Mus.
In 1955 he executed two large murals of War and Peace for the United Nations General Assembly Building, New York City.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/portinar.asp   (158 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Portinari, Cndido   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 Art Museum of the Americas - Permanent Collection
The history of the permanent collection of the Art Museum of the Americas has roots in the former Visual Arts Unit of the Organization of American States.
Under this unit, the first donation of art was received in 1949, a gift of painting by Brazilian artist Candido Portinari.
In 1957 the OAS Permanent Council conferred institutional backing to the collection by establishing a modest Purchase Fund to support the acquisition of art for a collection that was to reflect the contemporary art of the member nations of the OAS to form an enduring cultural resource.
www.museum.oas.org /permanent.html   (329 words)

  
 Social realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The public was outraged by Social Realism because they didn't know how to look at it and how to comprehend its realism to life at that time (Guy)
The American painters Ben Shahn, Leon Bibel, the Australian painter Noel Counihan, the Mexican painters José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari, the Italian painter Renato Guttuso and the Portuguese painter Júlio Pomar are all examples of Social Realists.
Social Realism in cinema is exemplified by Italian directors Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, English Ken Loach and Lukas Moodysson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_realism   (434 words)

  
 Candido Portinari Online
Original works by Candido Portinari available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Candido Portinari
All images and text on this Candido Portinari page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/portinari_candido.html   (179 words)

  
 Art/Auctions: Latin American Art auction at Sotheby's November 16-7, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
An oil on canvas that is 39 ½ inches square, it has an estimate of $350,000 to $450,000.
One of the most impressive lots in the auction is Lot 19, "Moça Penteando Los Cabelos," by Cândido Portinari (1903-1962), a tempera on canvas that measures 29 5/8 by 23 5/8 inches.
'In bringing his subjects to the canvas (or wall)," the catalogue observed, "Portinari drew on multiple art historical sources, uniting the principles of Mexican muralism with the formal solutions developed by Picasso in the 1920s and 1930s and spatial relationships adapted from Renaissance perspective.
www.thecityreview.com /f04slat.html   (2497 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - CAndido Portinari (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - CAndido Portinari (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia
CAndido Portinari[kAn´dEthO pOrtEnA´rE] Pronunciation Key, 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Candido Portinari
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 Portinari Murals at the Library of Congress (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Portinari Murals at the Library of Congress (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Cândido Portinari, Brazil's foremost painter, completed four frescoes on the walls of the vestibule of the Hispanic Reading Room at the Library of Congress in 1941.
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation as a goodwill gesture, these four murals, Discovery of the Land, Entry into the Forest, Teaching of the Indians, and Mining of Gold, represent the peoples of America and relates central themes in the past 500-year experience of inter-cultural contact in the Americas.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/treasures/tri068.html   (177 words)

  
 Art/Auctions: Latin American art evening auction at Sotheby's November 16, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It was a successful sale with about 75 percent of the offered lots selling for more than $12 million, the highest such total for a Latin American auction at Sotheby's since 2000.
Records were set for Candido Portinari, Jesus Rafael Soto, Maria Martins, Agustin Cardenas, Francisco Manuel Oller, Alicia Penalba, Leon Ferrari and Los Carpinteros, an artistic cooperative.
Lot 30, "Balanco (Swing)," is a pleasant oil on panel by Candido Portinari.
www.thecityreview.com /f05slat.html   (1272 words)

  
 Information about U.N. (New York) FDC: 18¢ Peace Mural, by Candido Portinari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
To call attention to the Peace Mural, a gift of the Brazilian Government to the United Nations in 1957.
The work of Candido Portunari (1903-1962), it measures 34 by 45 feet.
The mural interprets the objective of the United Nations to have succeeding generations from the scourge of war.
www.unicover.com /EA1BAOT2.HTM   (258 words)

  
 CANDIDO PORTINARI Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
CANDIDO PORTINARI Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
More details, updated results and all prices at art auction for CANDIDO PORTINARI, biography, classifieds and marketplace
Check all PORTINARI CANDIDO art market information since 1987
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 Hotel Portinari, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro - City, Brazil
Hotel Portinari captures the best of both worlds.
Situated half way between these two legendary beaches, Portinari is named after Brazil's famous Modernist painter, Candido Portinari, and is a work of art in its own right.
Ten of Brazil's top architects and designers were invited to bring their unique creativity to different parts of the hotel, from the lobby bar to the rooftop restaurant.
www.i-escape.com /hotel.php?hotel_key=BR002   (302 words)

  
 Candido Portinari, Cuiabá   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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Candido Portinari is Cuiabá's second tallest passing Di Cavalcanti.
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   Fine art auction result. Art prices
Auction information for the chosen item by Cândido Portinari
Size (H x W x D) 66.1 x 40 in / 168 x 101.6 cm
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 Live Auctioneers - 445: Painting by Candido Portinari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Live Auctioneers - 445: Painting by Candido Portinari
(Brazil, 1903-1962), woman with cow, signed lower left "Portinari 1939", oil and sand on canvas, 15-1/8 x 18-1/4 in., white painted frame.
Provenance: Deaccessioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art with labels verso.
www.liveauctioneers.com /s/lot-456787.html   (50 words)

  
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O/c of Brazilian mother and four children signed Portinari 936 - Candido Portinari (Brazil 1903-1962) 23" x 28" orig.
Museum of Modern Art stamp back of o/c by Candido Portinari.
Museum of Fine Arts label along with other labels Benjamin West's, "Master Tatton".
www.merrillsauction.com /ADDITIONAL6-4-05-ART.htm   (446 words)

  
 DBLP: João Candido Portinari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Coauthor Index - Ask others: ACM DL - ACM Guide - CiteSeer - CSB - Google
João Candido Portinari: The Portinari project: IR helps art and culture.
Ruiz: The Portinari Project - Science and Art Team Up Together to Help Cultural Projects.
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