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Getulio went to a private school, enlisted in the Army when he was 17, went from there to Rio Pardo Military School, quit in 1903, when he was 21, to study law at Porto Alegre. In 1908 he hung out his shingle in Sao Borja, and for the next few years he practiced law between terms in the State, then the Federal, Legislature. In 1926 he became Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza, as a reward for helping to elect Luiz. One year later he was President (Governor) of the State of Rio...
This year, egged on by Europe's war and talk of Pan-American solidarity, U. S. art galleries have plastered their walls with Latin-American art. But though an unprecedented quantity of pictures and sculpture from south of the Rio Grande is being exhibited from coast to coast, Latin-American art plays to a poor box office. The biggest Latin-American show, at the San Francisco World's Fair, has failed to draw. Even a bang-up Mexican show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 27) has attracted the lowest attendance recorded...
Disliked in his native Brazil because he insists on painting Negroes-who make up 30% of Brazil's population although most high-brow Brazilians like to ignore the fact-37-year-old Candido Portinari has had hard sledding in the salons of Rio de Janeiro. Second of twelve children in a family of impoverished Italian immigrant coffee workers, he got his first ideas about painting at the age of eleven, when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints...
Before long Portinari began to make money. He did it by painting gooily flattering portraits of Rio de Janeiro's dowagers, built himself a modest reputation as a portraitist whose talents for graphic euphemism could be depended...
...South America's, No. i Painter. Already Detroit's up-&-coming Institute of Arts and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have arranged one-man shows of 130-odd Portinari canvases (for typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer his lacquered society portraits. To make money, Portinari still paints them...