Fernando BoteroUn pintor y escultor

colombiano

Fernando Botero• Born in Medellin, Colombiaon April 19, 1932

• Fernando Botero attended a matador school for several years in his youth, and then left the bull ring behind to pursue an artistic career

• Displaying his work for the first time in a 1948 when he was 16 years old, and he had his first one-man show two years later in Bogota

• Fernando Botero is a Colombian artist known for creating bloated, oversized depictions of people, animals and elements of the natural world.

• Botero's work in these early years was inspired by pre-Colombian and Spanish colonial art and the political murals of Mexican artist Diego Rivera

• Also influential were the works of his artistic idols at the time, Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez. By the early 1950s, Botero had begun studying painting in Madrid, where he made his living copying paintings hanging in the Prado and selling the copies to tourists.

• Throughout the 1950s, Botero experimented with proportion and size, and he began developing his trademark style—round, bloated humans and animals—after he moved to New York City in 1960

Fernando Botero

• After reaching an international audience with his art, in 1973, Botero moved to Paris, where he began creating sculptures

• As his sculpture developed, by the 1990s, outdoor exhibitions of huge bronze figures were staged around the world to great success.

• His subsequent art, now exhibited in major cities worldwide

• Botero continues to exhibit his works around the world.

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Matador

Cuadros de Fernando Botero