"Portrait of Máriode Andrade" 1935
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.
He joined the Brazilian Communist Party and stood for senator in 1947 but had to flee Brazil for Uruguay due to the persecution of Communists. He returned to Brazil in 1951 but suffered ill health during the last decade of his life and died in 1962 due to lead poisoning from his paints.
His career coincided with and included collaboration with Oscar Niemeyer amongst others. Portinari's works can be found in galleries and settings in Brazil and abroad, ranging from the family chapel in his childhood home in Brodowski to his panels Guerra e Paz (War and Peace) in the United Nations building in New York. The range and sweep of his output is quite remarkable. It includes images of childhood, paintings depicting rural and urban labour, refugees fleeing the hardships of Brazil's rural north-east, treatments of the key events in the history of Brazil since the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500, portraits of members of his family and leading Brazilian intellectuals, illustrations for books, tiles decorating the Church of São Francisco at Pampulha, Belo Horizonte. There were a number of commemorative events in the centenary of his birth in 2003, including an exhibition of his work in London.
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.
He joined the Brazilian Communist Party and stood for senator in 1947 but had to flee Brazil for Uruguay due to the persecution of Communists. He returned to Brazil in 1951 but suffered ill health during the last decade of his life and died in 1962 due to lead poisoning from his paints.
His career coincided with and included collaboration with Oscar Niemeyer amongst others. Portinari's works can be found in galleries and settings in Brazil and abroad, ranging from the family chapel in his childhood home in Brodowski to his panels Guerra e Paz (War and Peace) in the United Nations building in New York. The range and sweep of his output is quite remarkable. It includes images of childhood, paintings depicting rural and urban labour, refugees fleeing the hardships of Brazil's rural north-east, treatments of the key events in the history of Brazil since the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500, portraits of members of his family and leading Brazilian intellectuals, illustrations for books, tiles decorating the Church of São Francisco at Pampulha, Belo Horizonte. There were a number of commemorative events in the centenary of his birth in 2003, including an exhibition of his work in London.
"Portrait of Elizabeth Brereton Lord" 1944
"Portrait of a young woman" 1934 
"Portrait of the Baron of Itararé" 1940
"Portrait of Pagu" 1933
"Portrait of Lourival Fontes" 1940
"Portrait of Olga Benário Prestes" 1945
"Alzira Vargas"
"Portrait of Celso Kelly" 1926
"Raul Bopp" 1935
"Portrait of Inah Prudente de Moraes" 1936
"Portrait of Hélio Feijó" 1932
"Portrait of Riette Mendes de Almeida" 1927
"Portrait of Annah de Mello Franco Chagas" 1937
"Portrait of Professor José Cucè" 1928
"The Violinist" 1931
"Self Portrait" 1930
"Portrait of a woman"
"Portrait of Antonio Barros de Carvalho" 1934
"Portrait of Zaíra Fortes" 1944
"Jorge de Castro" 1934
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3 comments:
Thank you very much for showing a great Brazilian artist.
:)
I'll post Pagu's portrait at my blog with a link to yours.
I'll also put your at my blog list.
Love,
Ana
These portraits are very interesting, they make you want to look at them again and again.
Thank you very much for your nice atricle. I love works of Portinari. He produced 641 portraits in his life.Your selection of them is wonderful. I like it.
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