Boteros biography
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Fernando Botero was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932. Globally renowned for his unique handling of volume, shape and colour, Botero is an artist of both popularity and critical acclaim. Having spent two years at a specialist school for matadors in Colombia as a child, Botero always maintained a fascination for the sport, and for the theatre and traditions of his native land. Deriving broad and exuberant inspiration from such diverse sources as clowns, the corrida and Piero De la Francesca, Botero has been a major force in art since the 1950s. The artist first showed at the Guggenheim in New York in 1958, the same year he provided illustrations for a novel by his friend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In 1963, the artist presented his Mona Lisa, Age 12 at New York’s MoMA, a counterpoint to the Mona Lisa which was being shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later works were to draw on influences of Albrecht Dürer and Edouard Manet among others. Attracted to forms
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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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Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Botero and the second or maternal family name is Angulo.
For the Colombian politician, see Fernando Botero Zea.
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| Born | Fernando Botero Angulo[1] (1932-04-19)19 April 1932 Medellín, Colombia |
| Died | 15 September 2023(2023-09-15) (aged 91) Monte Carlo, Monaco |
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| Spouse | Gloria Zea [es] (m. 1955; div. 1960)Cecilia Zambrano (m. 1964; div. 1975)Sophia Vari (m. 1978; died ) |
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