Abaporu

1928 painting by Tarsila do Amaral

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 anthropophagic phase of the modernist movement in Brazil. It was painted as a birthday gift to writer Oswald de Andrade, who was her husband at the time.

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