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A Brazilian Cultural Legacy – The Works of Candido Portinari at the Gustavo Capanema Palace – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Among the young artists invited to decorate the Gustavo Capanema Palace (PGC), there was Candido Portinari (1903/1961), a promising Brazilian painter who had won the Travel to Europe Prize (1929/30) and had already exhibited in relevant museums. such as MoMa (NY, USA).

Between 1936 and 1945 Portinari worked at the PGC where he developed specific themes for the first time: Economic Cycles, a group of 12 paintings (2.80 m x 2.80 m each) representing the work of the Brazilian people. These paintings were executed using the fresco technique, which Portinari had never used before, as he mentions in a letter to the poet and writer Mário de Andrade, a friend of his. Portinari uses this technique as a basis to create the other murals in the same building, his first large-scale works, representing: Children's Games (4.50 m x 12.80 m), Choir and Singing School (4.50 m x 3 .90 m each).

478 / 5 000 Resultados da tradução Aiming to reveal these almost unknown works to the general public, the project under development, the Portinari PGC Project, embraces this collection, notably through the characterization of materials and techniques and their application in the production of paintings, looking for the affinities and differences between these and other modernist works in European and North American collections, with a view, in particular, to clarifying the numerous problems of Conservation.

Claudia Nunes is Head of the Movable and Integrated Goods Sector at IPHAN in Rio de Janeiro, acting as Consultant and Cons auditor. and Restoration of Integrated Movable Assets for listed collections and monuments, also taking care of the restoration of historic centers such as Paraty, and acting as a reviewer for PRONAC Projects, inspects the restoration works of the National Museum and is responsible for guiding the restoration of the artistic works of the Palace Gustavo Capanema. In addition to having several works published, she taught courses at Fundação Joaquim Nabuco / RE, Projeto faz Cultura / Caixa Cultural de Salvador / BA and Associação ArcoIt / Curitiba / PR. Claudia is a doctoral student in the Doctoral Course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Movable Assets at the Catholic University of Porto, Portugal and a member of CITAR – Center for Technological Research and the Arts, and a professor at the Temple of Art Restoration Technical Center in São Paulo.