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Title
Swallows on Wires
Description
Composition in blue tones, black, white, red and yellow. Smooth, slightly textured and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing several birds perched in suggesting are three parallel power lines against blue sky with clouds and moon indicated reading in the center of the support the inscription: "Joujoux and Balangandans 1941". The three wires are in the upper half of the composition across its entire width and describe a slight curve. Rest on the wires fourteen black birds with beaks suggested by yellow dots in different positions. Beneath the wire, fourteen other flying birds, two of them - those who are just below the wire, on the right, are larger and more detailed; others are only suggested and spread throughout the composition. On the right up wires, four suggested birds, flying in perspective, toward the wire. The background is sky light blue tone, where broad brushstrokes suggest white clouds and where it stands big full moon in the upper on the right half of the composition.
Location Created
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
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Artwork Function
IllustrationArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Illustration for program of the theatrical production Joujoux e Balangandans, held at the Copacabana Palace Theater, Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Art Form
PaintingArtFormType
Art Medium
gouacheArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
cardboardArtworkSurfaceType
Technique
Support affixed to paper.
Height
27
Width
18.8
Dimension Notes
precisão: aproximadas
Annotation
Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 1941"
Annotation Author
Inscription in middle of support "Joujoux e Balangandans de 1941”
