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Title
Shantytown
Description
Composition in tones orange, earthy, yellow, blue, red, ochre, gray, green, rose and black. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing a slum on the hill, with shacks, several figures in various attitudes, against the backdrop suggestion buildings, sea, mountains and sky range. In the foreground, cue two gabled roofs, seen from above, across the entire width of the holder. On the right group of several shacks roofed of water, almost horizontally, looking at the window of one of them, a woman with the suggested facial features, blue dress and hands crossed over the railing. Behind her, two other figures. In the second plane, the on the left door open shed isolated, can be seen the interior, composed of green areas and a geometrical rose tones box. In the shack door, girl sitting on the floor, turned slightly to the right. Have light hair, facial features and suggested wears blue dress. At his side, you see a dog lying profile to the right. All the background is marked by floor consists of geometrical areas overlapping orange tones. On the right from the shed, a large pestle. A little further back, on the left of center, three women: two carrying backpacks and the other carrying the can of water. In the center, later, two other women, one facing the other. The on the left one is black, wears blue dress and carrying a backpack over his head; the on the right is white, wears dress buff and can carry water on their heads. On the right, you see the shacks group described above, one of which is with the door open, looking up the interior in green tones. Outside, leaning against a wall, standing man, dark complexion, crossed arms and on the left leg raised and supported on the wall. wear shirt red dug sleeves and blue pants. Between the second and third planes, three women in perspective for background and a child flying a kite. On the third level, we see the highest part of the hill in geometrical areas of several overlapping tones to shades earthy, where some shacks greenish tones indicating a slum not very populated. On the left, behind the hill, neighborhood suggestion homes and buildings suggested by quadrangular masses of bright colors against the blue area suggesting the sea. In the background, the mountain range of gray tones, and blue-green and blue range.
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Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Art Medium
oilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
canvasArtworkSurfaceType
Certificate
118
Height
130
Width
165
Annotation
Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1948"
