Abaporu is an oil painting completed by the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral in January 1928, depicting a solitary, monstrously scaled seated figure with huge feet and a tiny head, set against a green plain beneath a blazing yellow sun. Painted as a birthday gift for her husband, the writer Oswald de Andrade, and titled from a Tupi word meaning roughly the man who eats people, the painting directly inspired de Andrade's Cannibalist Manifesto and the broader Brazilian modernist Anthropophagy movement, which called for Brazilian art to consume and transform foreign influences into something distinctly national. Now held at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, it is considered the single most iconic painting of Brazilian modernism.
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Year Created LocationMuseu de Arte Latino-Americana de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina 1 Medium
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WikipediaHistory section, sentence 1 (medium)
It was painted in oil on canvas in January 1928 by Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) as a birthday gift to the writer Oswald de Andrade, her husband at the time.
History section, sentence 1 (creation date)
It was painted in oil on canvas in January 1928 by Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) as a birthday gift to the writer Oswald de Andrade, her husband at the time.
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It is currently displayed at the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, MALBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor'u", abá (man) + poro (people) + 'u (to eat), lit. 'the man that eats people') is an oil painting on canvas by Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral.
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Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor’u", abá (man) + poro (people) + ’u (to eat), lit. 'the man that eats people') is an oil painting on canvas by Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral. It is one of the main works of the anthropophag
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