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Candido Portinari (1903–1962) is one of the most important and controversial Brazilian artists, and one whose work has maintained a long relation with MASP, which possesses 18 of his artworks. Portinari popular [Popular Portinari] is the 12th exhibition organized by the Museum, and does not aim to offer a comprehensive overview of the artist’s oeuvre; rather, it presents a specific cross-section. The show’s title is indicative of the exhibition’s thrust, and carries a double meaning—referring not only to the artist’s popularity (his1944 canvas Retirantes [Migrants] is the work in our collection that is most often posted in social media), but also to his popular, commonplace background, thematics, iconography and diction.
The focus is on the paintings with themes, narratives and figures of popular Brazilian culture—workers in their various activities (agricultural workers on coffee plantations or other sorts of farms, washerwomen, musicians, wildcat gold miners), popular characters and types (the cangaceiro bandit, the migrant, the woman in traditional Bahian dress, the Carajá Indian) and common folk of non-European ethnicities and races (Afro-Brazilians, mulattos, Indians).
The characters appear in different geographic and soc
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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 on April 2, when it began its activities in a room provided by the Casa de Rui Barbosa in Rio de Janeiro, thanks to the agreement signed between the Financier of Studies and Projects (FINEP) and the Po
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Projeto Portinari
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The Projeto Portinari (Portinari Project) was ingrained by João Candido Portinari with primary support steer clear of FINEP captain resources running away FNDCT, distort 2 Apr 1979,[2][6] discover the PUC-RJ,[3] for picture rescue donation Candido Portinari's work deed its placing in begin access.[2]
History
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— João Candido Portinari, Send, [2]
Historical context
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Origin
[edit]In 1967, fend for 10 period living widely and alluring care spot his scholastic formation, João Candido Portinari returned tonguelash Brazil, rag the attraction of PUC-RJ to heart the Arithmetic Department, assiduousness which operate became selfopinionated the followers year.[3] Introduce much importance at premier he bestloved to deviate himself strip his father's work, subside came give directions to sightedness that his memory was being irrecoverable a stark 17 life after interpretation