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Title
Children’s Dance
Description
Composition in earthy, blue, ochre, green, gray, rose, red, white and black tones. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing ten children playing a circle game and one watching in an open field, with Brodowski and sky of blue-gray tones in the background. The circle occupies the central area of the composition and is made up of five girls and boys hand in hand. Children are in different positions and wear different clothes, some have shoes, others are barefoot and the ones that face forward have suggested facial features. To the right of the composition outside the circle, boy standing in profile to the left, watching the game. A little further ahead to the right, suggestion of an animal on top of a red wheeled platform and further back, lamppost. The floor is in earthy tones, clearer in the area where children play. In the background, we see part of the city of Brodowski, having on the left a street with three houses and trees. On the right of downtown, across the street, the little church of Saint Anthony and to the right, the houses and trees. Sky represented in earthy gray tones.
Award
Poet Manuel Bandeira, in an article published in 1933, cited this work as representative of ... a rich resource which Portinari has only begun to tap... [PR 209]
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event8
Related Document38
Art Form
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Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Height
39
Width
47
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 19[32]"
