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BOTERO Fernando
Fernando Botero was born in Colombia in 1932 in a town called Medellin, located in the heart of the Andes Mountains. His father David was a traveling salesman, touring the countryside on horseback, the sole means of transportation at the time.
From Colombia, Botero would travel to Spain and Paris before settling down in Florence where he would repeatedly revisit the Italian Quattrocentro masters, discovering techniques from a bygone era.
This is how Botero came to invent a different perspective, where men and women took on corpulent shapes, invading - and then becoming - their very own space. Here lies the very essence of Botero’s art.
Botero invented a truly innovative dimension. His universe is an ordinary one peopled with bull fighters, prostitutes from Medellin, all in a sensual ambiance filled with joy and color. We all know that creating a cliché takes genius. The overwhelming “roundness” of Botero’s work has become a legend in Art history.
A painter and sculptor who tended to scoff at new waves and trends affecting the art world, Botero gave us paintings that inspired peace while provoking happiness and abundance.
The Champs Elysées in Paris was the stage to a major, outdoor retrospective of some of his larger works and was a huge success. His paintings, which boasted a limited palette of ochre, cobalt and Prussian blue, are rare commodities sought after by avid art collectors at very expensive prices.
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