Tarsila is a Portuguese-Latin name from *Tharsilla* (martyred Roman virgin). **Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973)** was **the founding mother of Brazilian modernism** — her 1928 painting *Abaporu* ("the man who eats") inspired her husband Oswald de Andrade's **Anthropophagic Manifesto** that defined modern Brazilian art. **The first Latin American artist to receive a solo retrospective at MoMA** (2018) — her work fused European modernism with Brazilian indigenous and Afro-Brazilian themes.
**Among the most influential modernist painters of the 20th century.**
Tarsila reduces to five — the number of Brazilian modernist.