Parque candido portinari biography
- Candido Portinari was born on December 30, 1903, on a coffee farm in Brodósqui, in the interior of the state of São Paulo.
- The Candido Portinari Cultural Association (ACCP), the legal entity of the Portinari Project, was created, with Professor Afonso Arinos as its first President.
- Born and bred amongst the cotton and coffee planta¬ tions, Cándido Portinari remained faithful until the end of his life to the images of his childhood.
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Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari (Brodósqui, SP-1903 / Rio de Janeiro, RJ-1962)
Expressionist painter, engraver, illustrator and teacher.
Candido Portinari was one of the most famous Brazilian painters. Portinari painted almost five thousand works (from small sketches and paintings of standard proportions such as The Coffee Farmer to gigantic murals, such as the panels War and Peace, gifted to the UN headquarters in New York in 1956 and which in December 2010, thanks to the efforts of his son, returned to be exhibited at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro). He also stood out in the areas of poetry and politics.
Candido Portinari
During his career, he studied at the School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro; He visited many countries, including Spain, France and Italy, where he completed his studies.
In 1935 he received an award in New York for his work "Café". From that moment on, his work became known worldwide.
Among his works, the following stand out: "The First Mass in Brazil", "São Francisco de Assis" and Tiradentes". His most famous portraits are: his self-portr
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1978
During the gestation period of what would become the Portinari Project, João Candido Portinari, the painter's son, visited numerous institutions in the United States and Europe. Dismayed to find that the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) had more information on Portinari than all the Brazilian institutions he had visited, João realized that he needed to "get moving": "There was an urgent need to dedicate myself to his memory, to recover his memory, which was being lost".
The "Portinari Plan" was written with the support of Antonio César Olinto, Halina Grynberg, Armando Strozenberg, Leonel Kaz, and the advice of Flávio Motta, Clarival do Prado Valladares, Israel Pedrosa, among others.
A year earlier, Portinari's biographer, Antonio Callado, denounced this in a statement given to Ralph Camargo for the catalog of the exhibition Portinari Desenhista:"Segregated in private collections, in bank rooms, Candinho is becoming invisible. Will our greatest painter continue to be dismembered, like the Tiradentes he painted?"
1979
The Portinari Project reached its milestone o
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