A playful depicter of serious subjects, Botero's sculptures and paintings of rotund subjects in harrowing situations made him one of the world's richest artists
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world’s richest artists, has died at 91.
The artist’s bodacious subjects were portrayed in everyday situations – a corpulent naked woman lounging on a bed or a stout man riding a humorously out-sized horse – but served the artist’s more serious goal of transporting the reader to what he called a “superlative dimension”, where commonplace situations took on exaggerated proportions.
Although widely known for his large subjects, Botero insisted his pieces were not focused on body type.newspaper in 2014, “no one believes me, but it’s true. What I do paint are volumes.” Botero also paid tribute to classic paintings with witty rehashings – his version of the Mona Lisa is notably bloated compared to Da Vinci’s original.
Fernando Botero Angulo, the son of a traveling salesman and a seamstress, was born on April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia.
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