EMPTY LABEL
Title
Shantytown
Description
Composition in ochre, earthy, green, black, gray, blue and white tones. Predominant rough and smooth texture. Geometrized hills representing slums, working as background to a scene of musicians, a woman head-carrying a water bucket and a woman in the window of a shack. The characters have no defined facial features. In the foreground, in the center, a group of three musicians: one standing playing a tambourine and two sitting - the one on the left playing the guitar and the one on the right playing flute. To the left of the group, back facing, head-carrying a water bucket, long flowing straight hair and clothes represented as the Carajas indigenous, that is, two overlapping triangles. Between the woman and the musicians, an animal that looks like a black spiked hair cat and a poorly defined figure that appears to be a boy. Behind the musicians, forming a diagonal lower on the right corner to the center of the composition, a slum shack with a lean roof, where a woman is leaning on the window, to the right of the group. In the background, cut by the left edge of the support, another slum shack, with the a figure leaning against the door, his right arm raised. In the third level, the center, a shack with a lean to roof, further elevated than the others. In the background, hills geometrized in small rectangles representing slums. In the sky, a little left to the center, a crescent moon.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
3
Related Document
37
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
297
Previous Collection
Height
46
Width
55
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom left "PORTINARI 57"
Annotation Exhibition
On reverse, label "MUSEU NACIONAL DE BELAS ARTES. RIO DE JANEIRO. EXPOSIÇÃO: PORTINARI (dez anos de morte) DATA Junho 1972 EB”.
Annotation Others
On reverse, label "Claudio Araujo”. On stretcher, label from Galeria de Arte Ipanema. On back of frame, label "61 PORTINARI, CANDIDO (1903-1962) FAVELA. ÓLEO S/TELA, 45 x 54 cm 1957. Esta tela demonstra a grande preocupação social de Candido Portinari, entretanto, tanto a composição escolhida como as cores dão ao quadro excepcional lirismo. Como no seu quadro ‘Morro’ do acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova York, vê-se em primeiro plano à direita um grupo de músicos, a direita a figura típica do malandro carioca dos anos 40, ao centro é interessante observar a figura da lavadeira e lata d’água à cabeça, já tendo nesta o traço das índias Carajás tão explorados pelo artista em trabalhos posteriores. Constou de importante exposição de Portinari no Museu Nacional de Belas Artes em 1972, tendo sido reproduzido no catálogo e tem sêlo do Museu no verso do quadro”.
