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Candido Portinari

Personal Details Name Candido Portinari Place of Birth Brodowski, Sao Paulo, Brazil Date of Birth December 29, 1903 Date of Death February 6, 1962 (aged 58) Field Painting Nationality Brazilian Movement Modern Art Works O Mulato, Café, Meninos de Brodowski

Career:

   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.

   Works Of Candido Portinari:

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