a rabbit leaps into its own world

thanks wikipaintings.org. image in public domain

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso painted "The Leap of the Rabbit" in 1911.  Cardoso only had seven more years to live (he would die at age 30 in the influenza pandemic of 1918), but he was already on his way to becoming one of the most bold, inventive figures in Portuguese art.  In reading about him I learn that a number of art movements of his time can be seen in his work; I can surely see a vivid expressionism here, and even the beginnings of Cubism (look how hard edged and stylized those forms are).