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Title
Cotton Harvest
Description
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, overlapping and shaded lines. Composition representing cotton harvest It depicts with four figures amid cotton plantation. To the left of the composition, human form, standing almost in profile to on the left with facial features and indicated wrinkles. Figure standing with arms curved upward, picking cotton from a cotton ahead. Wears pants and short-sleeved shirt and standing with his on the left leg slightly flexed and more advanced than the on the right. Behind the figure, sees the bag where he puts the cotton harvested probably stuck in the shoulder. In the center of the composition, man standing, facing, indicated facial features; It is holding cotton balls, and the on the left is supported in the head in a gesture of fatigue or clean sweat and the next on the right to sack. This attaches to your on the left shoulder and it covers the whole body leaving only apparent lower legs, which are separated and barefoot. To his on the right, possibly a child, or curved woman, also standing, front, with his head and hair hanging forward. He is standing with hands inside the bag, which carries attached to his on the right shoulder, has legs slightly apart and barefoot. On the right man standing in front, lying head to the left and indicated facial features. The figure holds in his on the right hand edge of the bag that is in front of and to the left puts cotton ball inside. wear long sleeve shirt, has her legs spread and bare feet. To his on the left and the front of the girl, kind of hamper or braided basket. In the background, cotton planting and vegetation indicated by dashed quickly with two tree trunks suggested the on the left of the center of the composition.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event9
Related Document14
Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration for the June page of Panair do Brasil's 1955 calendar.
Art Form
DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
lead pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
paperArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to cardboard.
Height
33
Width
44
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 948"
