'With his Migrants, his Children from Brodowski, his paintings of laborers, Portinari signaled the abyss that still exists in Brazilian life, between the brutally grandiose country that comes to mind when we say - as if it were magic - “Brazil,” and the smallness of the Brazil inhabited by people imitating Europe and the United States. His painting of those times is a protest against the distance between us and that called Brazilian reality. It is a voice against the fact that we are still superimposed on the landscape rather than victoriously fixed in it, like the feet of the black people, the mixed race people, the tapuias, the cafusos,the curibocas and the immigrants.'
Antonio Callado
Writer
In: Callado, Antonio. Retrato de Portinari. Il. Candido Portinari. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: MAM-RJ, [1956]. 169 p. 8 il., 39 reproduções de obras
