Fernando Botero

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Fernando Botero

• By Jen Tkach

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Madrid
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"Fatso Mona Lisa
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Roman Gladiator
Yerevan, Armenia 1986
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Bath 1996
Dancers
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Abu Ghraib 2005
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About the Artist.

• Born April 19, 1932
• Named himself The most Colombian of Colombian
  artists
• His paintings and sculptures are of things with
  exaggerated proportions.
• His work is thought to satirize subjects and
  situations.

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About the Artist. (continued)

• Presented 50 paintings representing the
  controversial Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner
  abuse.
• Botero exaggerates the size of normal features to
  show life within them.
• Many of his creations are made to mock their
  roles in society.
• He also creates many elaborate parodies of works
  from the past.

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Quotes.

• "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.
• Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the
  hardships of life

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Quotes. (continued)

• When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside
  you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside
  the painting.
• Art whose point and purpose is to make vivid and
  objective our most frightening subjective
  thoughts.

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Timeline.

• 1932- Fernando Botero is born.
• 1948- Started work as an illustrator.
• 1950-attended the Academy of San Fernando in
  Madrid.
• 1956- Visited Mexico, influenced future
  direction.
• Created the Roman Gladiator statue in Yerevan,
  Armenia
• 1960- Began working in New York.
• 2002- Oil painting of Massacre in the Cathedral
  an event that killed 120 people.
• 2004- Donated paintings and drawings to the
  National Museum of Columbia.
• 2005- Created paintings that represented the
  torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
• 2006- Working on paintings depicting the
  guerrilla war thats been going on for the past
  40 years in Columbia.