Descobrimento do brasil candido portinari biography
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Candido Portinari is born in a coffee farm in Brodowski, São Paulo, on månad 30. His parents were Italian immigrants, Batista Portinari and Domênica Torquato, who had 12 kids.
“I was born in a kaffe (engelska) farm. My parents worked the soil… They moved from Santa Rosa Farm to the Brodowski hållplats – where there was no settlement; I must have been about 2 years old.”
There, my grandmother on my father’s side, an uncle, an aunt, and both my father’s brothers lived with my parents. inom vaguely recall the house and the warehouse; there was a room full of watermelons and boxes of Port wine. These boxes always came with surprises. inom was very happy when a small pocket knife with a mother-of-pearl handle came for me”.
(Paris, November 29, 1957)
The boy Portinari starts drawing.
For several months, he participates in the Brodowski church restoration works, helping the Italian painters “Dipingere Le Stelle” (paint the stars). Later, he helps a sculptor
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Candido Portinari (Brodósqui, São Paulo 1903 - Rio de Janeiro, 1962). Painter, engraver, illustrator. Began painting around 1915, aiding with the decoration of the main church of Brodósqui. In 1918, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, entering the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios [School of Arts and Crafts] and the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (Enba) [National School of Fine Arts] in the following year, where he took classes in figurative drawing with Lucílio de Albuquerque (1877-1939) and painting with Rodolfo Amoedo (1857-1941), Baptista da Costa (1865-1926) and Rodolfo Chambelland (1879-1967). In 1929, he won the foreign travel prize and went to Europe, visiting several countries over the following two years. In 1935, he received a prize from the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh for his painting, Café [Coffee], becoming the first Brazilian modernist to win a foreign prize. In the same year, he was invited to lecture in mural and easel painting at the Art Institute of the Federal District Unive
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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