1. What strikes you about this portrait?
2. What do you make of the flowers painted in a cartoon-like style that surround the man in the picture?
3. What attitude does the sitter have in this portrait?
4. Does the painting express a specific attitude about the man in the portrait?
5. Is your attitude toward the painting changed when you know that it is one of a series of watercolors that the artist painted of men of African descent and that this painting is of a man in Brazil?