Abaporu
Dublin Core
Title
Abaporu
Subject
human figures; cactus; natural landscape
Description
ENG: The man that eats people. The subject of the painting was described by the artist as “a monstrous solitary figure, enormous feet, sitting on a green plain, the hand supporting the featherweight minuscule head. In front of a cactus exploding in an absurd flower.” The piece was painted for Amaral’s husband, the Brazilian poet and critic Oswald de Andrade, and inspired his Manifesto Antropófago proclaiming the need for Brazilian culture to “cannibalize” its colonial influences in order to assert its independence.
Creator
Amaral, Tarsila do
Source
Material: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 85 x 73 cm
Measurements: 85 x 73 cm
Date
1928
Contributor
Atkins, Brionna
Rights
Image and some original data provided to ARTSTOR by The University of Texas at Austin. Contact information: Sydney Kilgore, Media Coordinator, Visual Resources Collection, Fine Arts Library, The University of Texas at Austin, P.O. Box P, Austin, Texas, 78713-8916, (512)
Format
Image/JPEG
Type
Still Image
Identifier
brazil_amaral_1928-a_2
Collection
Citation
Amaral, Tarsila do, “Abaporu,” The Latin American Surrealist Digital Library, accessed May 17, 2025, https://lis5472.cci.fsu.edu/sp21/group4/items/show/1.