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"Endomingada (In Sunday Best)" by Candido Portinari (Brazilian) - Oil on wood / 1947 - Projeto Portinari (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #CandidoPortinari #CândidoPortinari #Portinari #ProjetoPortinari #pintura #arte #1940s #PortraitofaWoman #BrazilianArt #BrazilianArtist
In a close-up portrait, a woman faces us, her shoulders squared and her gaze steady. Her skin is a deep brown tone against a pale, light-blue background. Brazilian artist Candido Portinari simplifies her features into bold, clean shapes like large dark eyes beneath strong brows, a straight nose, vivid red full lips, and a squared chin set on a long neck. She wears “Sunday best” clothing and adornment including a brimmed hat crowded with colorful flowers and bright red earrings striped with yellow. Her blouse is red, patterned with small yellow and blue spots, and cut high at the neck. The paint surface is smooth, with saturated reds, greens, violets, earth tones, black, and white working as accents around her face. Nothing distracts from her presence, so the portrait is intimate in scale and direct in address, inviting us to linger on expression, color, and self-presentation. Painted in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, this portrait sits in the same year Portinari was publicly engaged with politics. Projeto Portinari preserves his notes “for the 1947 electoral campaign,” written when he was a Senate candidate. Against that backdrop, the woman’s careful dress and bright jewelry could be a claim to dignity and visibility. The Portuguese title "Endomingada" names Sunday finery such as clothes chosen for rest, faith, celebration, or simply being seen. An old Paris gallery label on the reverse of the canvas recorded the title “Femme,” a reminder of how easily a woman can be reduced to a category. Portinari resists that flattening with directness via a steady frontal pose, a cool blue vibe that quiets the scene, and reds that pulse with life. As he once said, “I am a son of the red earth… I decided to paint the Brazilian reality, naked and crude as it is.” The smooth oil on wood and intimate 50 × 40 cm scale keep this encounter close ... more a face-to-face meeting than a spectacle.
January 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Retrato de Maria Lúcia de Faria Proença by Candido Portinari (Brazilian) - Oil on canvas / 1938 - Projeto Portinari (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) #womeninart #art #portrait #retrato #womensart #CandidoPortinari #Portinari #ProjetoPortinari #BrazilianArtist #portraitofawoman #oilpainting #beauty #bskyart
This 1938 composition in gray tones, earthy, blue, black, rose, ochre and red by Brazilian artist Candido Portinari blends smooth textures depicting Maria Lúcia de Faria Proença against gray background gradually becoming earthy tones. The center and taking almost the entire height of the support, we see half body of the portrayed and almost 3/4 on the right. She has brown hair parted on the left, brushed back his ears and falling to the middle of the neck. The forehead is broad, with tip-of-widow and sharp inputs, eyebrows are thick and arched, big brown eyes, almond-shaped and facing forward, broad nose, protruding upper jaw, rosy cheeks, thick red lips, oval face, neck slender and long. wears dark dress with square neckline and away from the neck. Her arms are hidden by long sleeves almost merged into the body of the clothing. ince 1979, the Projeto Portinari, with executive guidance of João Candido Portinari, has been gathering one of the most important multimedia archives on Brazilian history and culture of the twentieth century. The Projeto Portinari archive is the result of the research and inventory of almost 5,000 works and approximately 30,000 documents related to these works. These documents include: correspondences, newspaper articles, books, historical photographs, testimonials, catalogue's exhibitions and auctions and texts. An Oral History Program was also conducted, resulting in 74 testimonies, totaling 130 recorded hours. Oscar Niemeyer and Jorge Amado are among the testimonies that contributed to deepen the understanding of the life and work of Portinari and the aesthetic, artistic, cultural, social and political concerns of his generation.
March 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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It was a special moment, especially considering his father’s 1944 exhibition at the Barnett-Aden Gallery, which was affiliated with the university. 🎓🎨

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The murals at the Library of Congress - Google Arts & Culture
Portinari was invited to paint the murals at the library in Washington, D.C.
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October 15, 2024 at 10:25 PM