Candido portinari paintings of nature
Portinari painted more than five thousand canvases, from small sketches to monumental works such as the Guerra e Paz panels, which were donated to the United.!
Candido Portinari
20th-century Brazilian painter
Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter.
He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
Portinari painted more than five thousand canvases, from small sketches to monumental works such as the Guerra e Paz panels, which were donated to the United Nations Headquarters in 1956.
It depicts animals in the forest with soil in red tones and earthy, trees and undergrowth.
Portinari developed a social preoccupation throughout his oeuvre and maintained an active life in the Brazilian cultural and political worlds.
Life and career
Born to Giovan Battista Portinari and Domenica Torquato, Italian immigrants from Chiampo Vicenza, Veneto, in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo.[1] Growing up on a coffee plantation of dark soil and blue sky, Portinari gained his inspiration from the homeland he loved.
In the majority of his later paintings, murals and frescoe