Famous Artists
| Paul Cezanne | Salvador Dali | Renoir | Wassily Kandinsky | Joan Miro | Tamara de Lempicka |
| Claude Monet | Gauguin Paul | Picasso | Botero Fernando | Van Gogh | William Bouguereau |
| Fernando Botero Angulo (born April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Antioquia) is a
Colombian neo-figurative artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of
Colombian artists" early on, coming to prominence when he won the first
prize at the Sal¨Žn de Artistas Colombianos in 1959. Botero draws in a style somewhat similar to Pablo Picasso. Whilst he lived in Dinard, Brittany, 1922, for example "Deux femmes courant sur la plage" (The Course). He strives in all his work to capture an essential part of himself and his subjects through color and form. 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" are often thought by critics to satirize the subjects and situations that Botero chooses to paint. 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." 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. |
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