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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
46. Café (Coffee), 1935. Cândido Portinari is the most important Brazilian painter of the Thirties and Forties. Themes of labor, Brazil's natural resources, and rural poor dominate Portinari's work. Influenced by both Cubism and the heroic social themes of Mexican Muralism, Portinari received many commissions in Brazil and abroad. Among his murals are those in the Library of Congress.
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
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Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1997
Keywords
Brazil: Modern Brazilian Painting
