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Title
Scarecrow
Description
Composition in gray, green, earthy, white, black, ochre, blue and red. Smooth texture, strokes marked on extremely thin layers background and leaving the apparent screen. Scarecrow occupying the entire area of the composition against background composed of irregular geometrical areas in different colors. The scarecrow is in the center, front, mounted on vertical and inclined beam to the left. He has the face suggesting a black African mask: with three big eyes, two noses suggested by ochre triangles contoured green and two large red mouths. He is dressed in bright clothes with shaded gray and ochre, seeing a large patch on his chest, striped blue and red dots. The arms and legs are in different positions, suggesting clumsiness, seeing a part of plump lock the on the right arm and on the left leg and the sole of the on the right shoe. In the background, contrasting geometrical areas in light and dark tones, earthy, gray, white, green and rose.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
Themes
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Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
163
Previous Collection
Height
100
Width
80
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 1940"
