"Antonio Dias, Brazilian Artist Who Poked the Generals, Dies at 74," Obituary, by Jason Farago, The New York Times, Aug. 6, 2018

Antonio Dias, a Brazilian artist whose early, hot-colored paintings needled his country’s military dictatorship, and who later turned to subtly political conceptual art while in self-imposed European exile, died on Aug. 1 in Rio de Janeiro. He was 74.
The cause was a brain tumor, said Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo, which represents Mr. Dias. He was also being treated for lung cancer at the Clínica São Vicente, a hospital in Rio.
In the mid-1960s Mr. Dias emerged as the leading figure of Nova Figuração (New Figuration), a movement in Brazilian painting that used bold, graphic imagery to cont...