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Title
Coffee
Description
Composition in tones rose, green, gray, earthy, blue, orange and white. Smooth, thick texture in some regions and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing coffee culture It depicts, with men and women working in various activities, and coffee plantation in the background. In the foreground, on the left, bags of coffee stack, looking up in front of an open, showing the beans inside. To the right of sacks front man, wearing a hat, with curved body, holding the ends of a bag of coffee that lies ahead. To the left of center, female figure, standing, front, fanning coffee, which rises in vertical strip, as if floating in the air. The figure has green face; hands held between the sieve, using long sleeve blue and exit consisting of geometrical areas; It has the wide apart legs and bare green feet. On the right figure almost in profile to the right, with his body bent forward, gathering with a hoe the ground coffee and depositing in a lot, which is between your foot and the figure that wags the coffee. Wearing a hat and light clothing. In the background, on the right of center back figure and inclined to the bottom. The floor is represented by geometrical areas in tones rose, darker on the inside area of the composition, filled with small rectangles of the same color in lighter or darker shades. In the background, coffee plantation, to the left is seen standing female figure, back, light clothing and orange scarf, harvesting coffee. On the right in front of the coffee crop of dark green tones, three figures side by side, all standing on his back with his arms raised, wearing light-colored clothes, two of them wearing orange scarves and of course scarf.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event
5
Related Document
11
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
woodArtworkSurfaceType
Collection
Banco ItaúCollection
Height
46
Width
55
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom left "PORTINARI 57"
Annotation Others
On back of frame, metal plate "BBSP 28251”.
