EMPTY LABEL
Title
Settlers Carrying Coffee
Description
Composition in ochre, earthy, white and gray. Smooth texture, contour lines, plateaus and shaded areas. Composition representing It depicts with figures of men and women carrying sacks on their heads and two children. In the foreground, three black and strong men, all standing and walking to the left one after another, carrying sacks on their heads. All have heads, hands and feet indicated in shades earthy and wear light-colored clothes, and the latter is much clearer than the first. The first and the last hold the bag upon the right with the on the left hand and the center, to the right, with the on the left arm throughout the body. All are with the on the left leg a little earlier than the on the right. Behind the figure at center girl standing with her back, dark hair and long dress ochre. Between the center and the on the right, another girl standing in front, with hair and facial features suggested, stocky body, misshapen arms along the body, wearing a dress with draping and indicated barefoot deformed. The floor is indicated in light ochre tone. In the background, on the left, three sacks stacked. Interspersing the figures of profile of men, three women standing in front, brown, squat and deliberately deformed, also with bags over their heads. The on the left supports the bag with his on the right arm raised, has dark hair, facial features suggesting that mixed wears dressed in ochre tones with draping suggested in earthy and rounded feet tones. The woman is the center of black features, standing with arms along the body, wears dress greenish hues and has feet like the previous one. The on the right of the figure one can see half-body and also wears dress greenish hues. Behind the second wife, two heads, one on each side of his head, with suggested facial features and with bags over their heads. On the third level, to the left, two women back against areas of earthy tones. Basically, also on the left, gray area suggesting sky.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
Related Event19
Related Document84
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Previous Collection
Height
67
Width
83
Annotation
Signed in bottom right corner "C. PORTINARI RIO". Undated
