Source: Edward J. Sullivan (Ed.), Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. New York: Phaidon, 2004, p. 231.
Painting: Jorge Guinle (1947-1987): "Bella Ciao!" (Pretty good-bye, 1985).
Comment: Guinle's break-out period was the 1970s when he was in the vanguard of contemporary Brazilian artists, on whom he had a major influence in the 1980s. About his art, he said:

"My iconography is abstract... It's an iconography of the history of art and not an iconography based on the German or Italian Neo-Expressionists, or even [Julian] Schnabel who, using an image, reduces its function to zero. In my case, for emotional and aesthetic reasons, there is a mixture that ranges from gestural Abstract Expressionism, de Kooning and Matisse, to automatist Surrealism. But with each appropriation of a style, of an initial idea, the original objective of the movement is subverted by the inclusion of another movement that represents its negation... The possibility and the pleasure of always braodening and feeding these contradictions form the praxis of my art." (227).

Humanities Homework Project: Find another artist in this series on Brazilian art whom one could reasonably consider a precursor of Guinle's notion of contemporary Brazilian art. Compare and contrast Guinle with the artist in this series whom you have chosen.