No ateliê de Portinari, 1920-45

Exhibition dedicated to the formative years of the modernist painter Candido Portinari (b. Brazil, 1903-1962) that gathers works created between 1920 and 1945, offering a new perspective on the artist's search and development of his particular artistic style, strongly influenced by the aesthetics of the Social Realism art movement (practiced in Mexico, Russia and the United States in its murals). It is during this 25-year period that the artist produced some of his most emblematic works on ethnic Brazilian workers, the famous "Mestizo" (1934), "Retrato de Maria" (1932), "Domingo no morro" (1935), "Sapateiro de Brodowski" (1941), "Criana morta" (1944), and "Lavrador de Café", although not present in the exhibition it is represented by means of a paper sketch. Curator and historian Annateresa Fabris defined Portinari's art work as "There is a social root in the work of Portinari who stated to the Communist Party, that 'the painting that is not related to the people is not art, but a mere hobby'."