Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/"Discovery of the Land"

"Discovery of the Land" edit

Original - Study for Discovery of the Land, a mural at the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, by Candido Portinari.

Reason: Looking to fill another gap or two in our featured picture portfolio: so far we haven't promoted any Latin American artwork. These sailors practically leap off the screen at me. Hoping others feel the same. Restored version of Image:Discovery of the Land.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: Candido Portinari, Library of Congress Digital Library project
Creator: Candido Portinari

Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 10:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Slightly confused by the PD tag here - how is this a work of the US federal government? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's a U.S. government commission. Durova^Charge! 10:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nominated. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
support - Very nice, although the shadows are a bit distracting. --Meld shal 14:42, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but then the painter wants it like that, so oh well.Pie is good ^{(Apple is the best)} 19:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose It took me about two minutes of looking at it to finally figure out what the representation was of. I realize that's just a matter of personal preference, but to me, it looks more like random curvy lines on canvas than a meaningful work of art. Clegs (talk) 00:52, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. While mid-20th Century Latin American artwork generally isn't my thing, this seems like a high quality example of the work of Portinari. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support as long as we can get some other latin american art in too, because this study is not the best of the best. Good idea though. Intothewoods29 (talk) 19:51, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Even if another image fitting your criteria were to be nominated now, its nomination would close after this one, so it would not be possible to consider your conditional !vote. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - You are absolutely welcome to locate and nominate more Latin American potential FP material. I've been looking for quite some time. When I visited the National Library of Brazil's website I was unable to locate images of high enough resolution to nominate. Brazilian copyright law generally follows the life + 70 rule, so most works by this artist will not enter public domain until 2032 and free licensed Brazilian art from the 1940s is hard to come by, especially in high resolution files. The federal government of Brazil does place material into the public domain like the United States government does, so if you find Brazilian government PD material that'd be great (I haven't had such luck, but my searching is somewhat limited from dependence on cognates from Spanish). Durova^Charge! 02:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support High quality image of a hard-to-find genre. Pie is good ^{(Apple is the best)} 19:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Discovery_of_the_Land1.jpg MER-C 10:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]