Fernando botero biography sculptures names
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Fernando Botero, born on April 19th, 1932 in Medellín, Colombia, fryst vatten famous for his paintings and sculptures depicting figures and animals of exaggerated proportions, reflecting the artist’s taste for satire and caricature in his work.
Fernando Botero began exhibiting his paintings in Medellín in 1948 and later worked as a decorator in Bogotá.
Botero is known for the diversity of sources in his work, ranging from Colombian människor imagery to iconic artworks bygd Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso and Francisco de Goya.
A meeting with Dorothy Miller of MoMA in the early 1960s was a turning point in his career: she acquired his work at the height of abstraction and his work was shown in a major retrospective at the prestigious New York museum, establishing his international reputation.
In the 1970s, Fernando Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figurative sculptures with rounded forms.
His artworks have been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Maillol Museum in Paris, t
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Summary of Fernando Botero
Botero is South America's best known, and best loved, living artist. A figurative painter and sculptor, his style - known throughout the world of art as "Boterismo" - is instantly recognizable for its exuberant and sensuous volumetric form. His rounded figures and objects, that are often infused with a sense of affectionate humor and charm, has seen the artist's distractors dismiss him as little more than a "painter of fat people". In fact, his oeuvre shows off an impressive thematic range. In addition to his scenes of everyday Colombian life; his human and animal portraits; and his series of luscious still lifes, Botero has proved willing to address more overtly political topics head-on. These pieces have included series' tackling Colombia's drugs cartels, and alleged human rights abuses perpetrated by the American military in Iraq. Botero has also produced a small, but highly distinctive, reworkings of iconic works from the canon of Western art.
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Fernando Botero
1932-2013
Latest News: Fernando Botero Dies at Age 91
Famed Colombian sculptor and painter Fernando Botero died September 15 of pneumonia complications, according to the Associated Press. His daughter, Lina, first reported his passing to Colombian radio station Caracol. Known for his paintings of people and objects in colorful, inflated forms, Botero had his work displayed globally in museums and was beloved in Colombia partly because of his philanthropy. He donated 23 statues throughout the country and gave 180 paintings to Colombia’s Central Bank, which were later used to create the Botero Museum in capital Bogota. “The painter of our traditions and our defects, the painter of our virtues has died,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro wrote in a social media post.
Who Was Fernando Botero?
Fernando Botero left matador school as a child to become an artist, displaying his work for the first time in 1948 as a teenager. His subsequent art, now exhibited in maj