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In-Depth Information
Pinacoteca do Estado
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The Pinacoteca is a significant repository of Brazilian
art, with an archive of over 5,000 paintings and
sculptures representing all major Brazilinan artists
and artistic movements. The galleries trace the
evolution of Brazilian styles, which began as mock-
European naturalism and gradually diversified into
social realist, naive, and abstract forms. In the mid-
1990s, the Pinacoteca was magnificently renovated by
the noted architect Paulo Mendes de Rocha, who filled
the original Neo-Classical building with carefully
positioned partitions and capped it with a translucent
roof. The magical sense of space and light perfectly
complements the intensity of color and tone which
characterizes Brazilian art.
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Composição
This Brazilian Constructivist
composition by Alfredo Volpi
(1896-1988) fuses European
style with tropical colors.
Serie Bahia
Musa da Paz
Belonging to an
infuential group
of Paulista artists,
José Pancetti
(1902-58) rejected
a European aca-
demic approach to
art and strove to
return to a more
naive style.
Entrance
Octagonal exhibition hall
The photography
exhibition
features
Brazil's celebrated
social documentary
photographers.
Façade
The Pinacoteca was tastefully
refurbished in the 1990s, leaving
only the shell of the original building.
Auditorium
First floor
GALLERY GUIDE
The Pinacoteca's permanent collection is on the first floor,
with galleries housing the Modernist collection, just above
the main entrance. Brazilian 19th-century paintings and
the more recent works flank this gallery, while sculptures by
French artists, such as Aristide Maillol, occupy a prominent
display. The ground floor is devoted to temporary exhibitions
and also has a bookshop and a café.
STAR FEATURES
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Composição
. Tropical
. Caipira Picando Fumo
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p374 and pp399-401
