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Abaporu
1928
An enormous foot, tiny head and tropical sun created the image that helped ignite Anthropophagy: Brazil would consume European modernism and remake it.
Artist field note
Tarsila Do Amaral
Brazilian modernism learns to digest Europe.
Appears inLatin America
The five in one idea
Tarsila made Brazilian modernism powerful by refusing to be merely European modernism in Brazilian clothes.