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![Fernando Botero [Colombian Painter, born in 1932]](fernando-botero.jpg)
Biography
Fernando Botero is a Colombian figurative painter and sculptor, born in the city of Medellín. Botero is one of the most celebrated contemporary Latin American artists.
In an age that idolizes slenderness, Botero has made an art of corpulence. Strongly influenced by the colorful folk art of his homeland and by such painters as Velázquez , Goya , and Diego Rivera , he attempts to "create sensuousness through form" in his canvases of rounded, massively rotund figures painted in bright decorative hues and in his sculptures (notably monumental bronzes) of similarly voluminous people and animals.
His work includes still-life and landscapes, but Botero tends to primarily focus on situational portraiture. His paintings and sculptures are, on first examination, noted for their exaggerated proportions and the corpulence of the human figures and animal figures.
The "fat people" is what they are often called by critics. Botero explains his use of obese figures and forms as such: "An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it." (continued on the bottom)
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He is an abstract artist in the most fundamental sense of the word, choosing what colors, shapes, and proportions to use based on intuitive aesthetic thinking. This being said, his works are informed by a Colombian upbringing and social commentary is woven throughout his work.
Often cheerfully whimsical and sometimes satirical in approach, his work typically includes individual and family portraits, nudes, equestrian figures, bullfighting scenes, and still lifes. Beginning in the late 1990s, as drug-fueled guerrilla warfare raged in Colombia, his work became much darker (though unchanged in style) as he created paintings and drawings of the period's kidnappings, massacres, torture, and death. He has continued exploring these themes in paintings that depict the abuse of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Fernando Botero in Museums and Web Sites (Click on link to view image)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy