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Is Part Of
General Info
Title
Shells and Sea Horses
Description
Composition in blue and white. Contour lines and colored areas. Composition representing the seabed, is seeing seahorses and shells symmetrically distributed, and these are almost all contained in the central area of amoeboid shape against background in various shades of blue and white. The whole composition is cut by diagonal lines forming squares with angles up and to the sides suggesting network. Around the entire composition are seen hippocampi inserted into the square in profile to the left; they are represented in blue when they are against a light background and represented in white when the background is dark. Wide winding line defines amoeboid occupying much of the composition, finding himself inside larger shells that hippocampi and also represented in blue when they are against a light background and white when the background is dark. They are inserted into the square that suggest network but whose mesh is wider. On the right still within the amoeboid form, elongated shapes suggesting, perhaps, molluscs.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Function
Artwork Function
Executed toArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Work executed for a façade at the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Support and Technique
Art Form
PanelArtFormType
Art Medium
tilesArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
combined medium and supportArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Collection
Dimensions
Height (cm)
990
Width (cm)
1510
Dimension Notes
PAINEL
15x15 (azulejos)
Signature and annotation
Annotation
Unsigned
Annotation Author
Dated in inscription at bottom left edge "COMPOSIÇÃO de C. PORTINARI EXECUÇÃO da OSIRARTE de SÃO PAULO 1941-1945”
Other info
Notes Date
Dates on this panel (1941-1945) refer to entire group of tile panels, including those designed by Paulo Rossi Osir.
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