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Title
Felling
Description
Composition in black and white. Straight and parallel lines and shading. It depicts with eleven figures working in the overthrow of a forest. In the foreground, center, dark-skinned man standing in front with legs very safe apart with his hands an ax to the right, suggesting that will trigger a coup in the trunk of a tree that is on the left of the composition; on the right two figures. Suggesting, by size, are two boys crouched forward with trunk inclined forward and arms straight down as if they were picking up something on the ground. In the background, on the left, two figures, also on a smaller scale, suggesting that they are boys, face to face, with trunks bent down as if they were picking up something on the ground; a little more to the right, another figure with ax in the hands suggesting that will trigger a coup in the same tree trunk that is in the foreground; on the right back with legs bent figure with ax horizontally as if cutting tree trunk in front. In the third plan, figure suggestion in profile standing to the left and a fawn standing in profile to the left; to central clearing with suggested cut trunks scattered on the floor; on the right figure of cut slightly toward the on the left, with outstretched arms and legs bent upward. In the background, on the left, cue dense forest, the center continued clearing with logs on the ground; and on the right, cue two more figures working in the woods.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event4
Related Document13
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
crayonArtMediumType
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Height
33.5
Width
49
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari". Undated
