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Abaporu
Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral (1886, Capivari - 1973. São
Paulo) painted Abaporu- an oil on canvas painting, measuring
8573 cm - and gave it as a birthday gift to writer Oswald de
Andrade, who was her husband at the time. That was in 1928
"Abaporu" is a word from the Tupi-guarani tanguage, which
means "a man that eats people" faba manporo: people,
useat). The composition shows the sun, a cactus, and a monstrous
solitary human figure whose anatomy has been distorted
Oswald and his friends were fascinated by this piece of work.
At the time, Oswald de Andrade used to say that Brazilian
culture was imported from European culture. Tarsila's work
inspired him to create the Anthropophagic Movement with the
idea of swallowing foreign art and culture and turn them into
something culturally Brazilian. The movement called artists to
use a modernistic approach in their art and to create works that
were uniquely Brazilian in order to "export Brazilian cutture to
the world,
Tarsila has been described as "the Brazilian painter who
blended local Brazilian content with international aesthetics".
The famous portrait, which has become one of the most
recognizable pieces of Brazilian art worldwide, was sold for
US$1.4 million in a 1995 auction.
19) The word “Abaporu" means:
a) a man that helps people
b) a man that eats people
c) a man that cooks food
d) a man that sleeps too much​

Answer 1

"Abaporu" is a word from the Tupi-guarani language, which means "a man that eats people"

letra b) a man that eats people