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Title
Juca Mulato
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, fast and scraped traces. Mulatto Representation playing viola, with fence and planting of coffee in the background. Figure of a man sitting in front, head down, wearing straw hat that covers her eyes, broad nose, thick lips and closed indication stubble. Safe with his on the left hand the arm of a guitar and the on the right seems to touch the instrument's strings. Has legs apart, sitting on a bale represented by rapid parallel lines, wear light clothing with long sleeves and pants showing the shins, bare feet. On the left, barbed wire fence on the left diagonal to on the right, front to the back, where lie birds represented by quick strokes; on the other side of the fence facing small horse. On the right, vegetation representing coffee plantation - on the right diagonal to the left, from the front to the back. Floor circumscribed quick represented by lines, surrounding the mulatto FIG.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Document
5
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration for cover of the book Juca Mulato, by Menotti Del Picchia
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
India ink penArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Height
19.8
Width
20.4
Annotation Author
Signed and dated in dedication in bottom left corner "PARA O MENOTTI COM O ABRAÇO DO PORTINARI set 959”
Annotation Family
On reverse, letter from Portinari.
Annotation Others
Inscriptions on strips affixed to cardboard "capa original por Portinari para a edição comemorativa do JUCA MULATO nas Comemorações de Jubileu Literário de Menotti Del Picchia”.
