Marabá

Marabá is one of the main works of Brazilian painter Rodolfo Amoedo. It is a painting made in oil on canvas and is 151.5 cm high by 200.5 cm wide. Along with the work The Last Tamoio, it is among the painter's most important productions. It was in Paris, in 1882, that Rodolfo Amoedo produced Marabá. The great inspiration for him would have been the eponymous poem by Gonçalves Dias, published in 1851 in the work Lêntros Cantos, which tells the story of a sad and alone mixed race woman who has not found her place in the world and who is rejected by the Indians of the tribe because she resembles the white man more than the native peoples. Currently, painting is located at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro and is considered a work that values history, characters and national motifs, although it continues to have links with traditional Western art values.