Abaporú

painting by Tarsila

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  • Tarsila do Amaral
    In Tarsila do Amaral

    …is perhaps her best-known work, Abaporú (“Man Who Eats” in the Tupí-Guraraní language), a cartoonlike human figure seated next to a cactus under a burning sun. The painting inspired Andrade’s “Anthropophagite Manifesto,” which described Brazil’s digestion and transformation of European culture in terms of cannibalism. In the late 1920s and…

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