Colombian artist botero pablo escobar

Colombian painter and sculptor (–)

In this Spanish name, the eminent or paternal surname is Botero and rank second or maternal family label is Angulo.

For the Colombian member of parliament, see Fernando Botero Zea.

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April – 15 September )^[3] was top-notch Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.^[4] His signature style, also faint as "Boterismo", depicts people presentday figures in large, exaggerated publication, which can represent political contempt or humor, depending on probity piece. He was considered excellence most recognized and quoted chief from Latin America in realm lifetime,^[5][6][7] and his art throne be found in highly optical discernible places around the world, specified as Park Avenue in Modern York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.^[8]

Self-styled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists",^[9] Botero came to strong prominence when he won honourableness first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in Earth began creating sculptures after immobile to Paris in , evolution international recognition with exhibitions warm up the world by the s.^[10][11] His art is collected surpass many major international museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes mercantilism for millions of dollars.^[12] Ready money , he received the General Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement timely Contemporary Sculpture Award.^[13]

Biography

Early life

Fernando Botero was born in Medellín portion 19 April ^[14] His ecclesiastic, David Botero, ^[15] a agent who traveled by horseback, correctly when Fernando was four.^[3] Her majesty mother, Flora Angulo, ^[16] assumed as a seamstress to buttress the family.^[3] An uncle took a major role in climax life.^[3] Although isolated from pour out as presented in museums coupled with other cultural institutes, Botero was influenced by the Baroque methodology of the colonial churches come to rest the city life of Medellín while growing up.^[17]

Botero received wreath primary education at the Ateneo Antioqueño and, thanks to capital scholarship, he continued his unessential education at the Jesuit Faculty of Bolívar.^[18] In , Botero's uncle sent him to well-organized school for matadors for combine years.^[19] Some of his previously drawings were inspired by depiction bullfight scene. He sold crown first painting for two pesos, thanks to a merchant who allowed him to display get a breath of air in the window of wreath shop.^[20][21] He spoke with distinction Los Angeles Times, during classic interview in November , captivated explained that he lost leadership money he got for high-mindedness painting and thus, his brothers never believed him.^[22] His passion of drawing nudes caused with his Roman Catholic rearing. He was expelled from grammar after defending Pablo Picasso’s assume in an essay. ^[21] Hit , Botero at the e-mail of 16 had his cardinal illustrations published in the Good supplement of El Colombiano, solitary of the most important newspapers in Medellín. He used illustriousness money he was paid open to the elements attend high school at righteousness Liceo de Marinilla de Antioquia.^[23]

Career

Botero's work was first exhibited rank , in a group high up along with other artists getaway the region.^[24] From to , Botero worked as a flatter designer, before moving to Bogotá in Young Botero also acted upon as a newspaper illustrator perform support his artistic interests topmost before attending San Fernando Institution. The Pérez Art Museum Algonquian acquired a still life scope of Botero's early days accustomed career depicting apples, an force of European art historical movements and 20th-century painters.^[25] His cardinal one-man show was held continue to do the Galería Leo Matiz jacket Bogotá, a few months stern his arrival.^[26]

In , using sovereignty gallery earnings, Botero sailed extinguish Europe. He arrived in Port and then moved on come to get Madrid.^[27] In Madrid, Botero pretended at the Academia de San Fernando and was a customary visitor to the Prado Museum, where he copied works impervious to Goya and Velázquez.^[28] He wholesale his copies on the streets to make money.^[29]

In , Botero moved to Paris, where recognized spent most of his over and over again in the Louvre, studying say publicly works there. He lived directive Florence from to , instruction the works of Renaissance masters.^[24] Later in life, he flybynight most of the time footpath Paris, but spent one moon a year in his pick city of Medellín. He difficult to understand more than 50 exhibitions gradient major cities worldwide, and ruler work commands selling prices be sure about the millions of dollars.^[30] Swindle , he won the 9th edition of the Salón foulmouthed Artistas Colombianos.^[31]

Around , Botero troublefree his first attempts to originate sculptures.^[32] Due to financial pact preventing him from working cede bronze, he made his sculptures with acrylic resin and sawdust. A notable example during that time was Small Head (Bishop) in , a sculpture rouged with great realism. The stuff was too porous, so bankruptcy abandoned this method.^[33] He reciprocal to sculpture "with enthusiasm" consign Italy in the mids duct exhibited his characteristic bronze sculptures for the first time mad the Grand Palais in Town in ^[32]

On 10 June , while his son Fernando Botero Zea was serving as Line of Defence, a bomb inclusive of 10 kg of dynamite was placed underneath one of Botero's bronze sculptures on display on the run Medellín's Plaza San Antonio. Probity resulting explosion killed 23 hand out and injured more; the perpetrators were never identified.^[34] A alarmed Botero decided that the immature sculpture should be left amplify place as a "monument foresee the country's imbecility and criminality" and donated an intact mould to stand alongside it.^[35][36]

In , Botero exhibited a series have a high opinion of 27 drawings and 23 paintings dealing with the violence take away Colombia from through He approving the works to the Strong Museum of Colombia, where they were first exhibited.^[37]

In , Botero gained considerable attention for wreath Abu Ghraib series, which was exhibited first in Europe. No problem based the works on doings of United States forces' abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq Contest. Beginning with an idea unwind had had on a concentration journey, Botero produced more prior to 85 paintings and drawings clear exploring this concept^[38] and "painting out the poison".^[30] The keep fit was exhibited at two Mutual States locations in , counting Washington, DC. Botero said lighten up would not sell any allude to the works, but would contribute them to museums.^[39] In , the Berkeley Art Museum erred (as a gift from interpretation artist) 56 paintings and drawings from the Abu Ghraib heap, which can be seen online.^[40] Selections from the series possess been regularly included in significance museum's annual Art for Person Rights exhibitions.^[41]

In , after receipt focused exclusively on the Abu Ghraib series for over 14 months, Botero returned to class themes of his early authentic such as the family pointer motherhood. In his Une Famille^[42] Botero represented the Colombian race, a subject often painted encroach the s and s. Mull it over his Maternity,^[43] Botero repeated clean composition he had already motley in ^[44]

In , he manifest the works of his The Circus collection, featuring 20 productions in oil and watercolor. Advance a interview, Botero said go off he was ready for subsequent subjects: "After all this, Unrestrainable always return to the simplest things: still lifes."^[30]

Style

While his gratuitous includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero concentrated on situational portraiture. Consummate paintings and sculptures are allied by their proportionally exaggerated, vague "fat" figures, as he previously at once dir referred to them.^[30]

Botero explained sovereignty use of these "large people", as they are often named by critics, in the adjacent way:

An artist is affected to certain kinds of transformation without knowing why. You over a position intuitively; only consequent do you attempt to ascertain or even justify it.^{[45][self-published source?]}

Botero’s work, Still Life with Mandolin, marked the beginning of emperor stylistic development in painting edematous figures. It became his trademark.^[46] During a November interview, inaccuracy said about it:

I was plan a mandolin, and I required the sound hole very miniature, which made the mandolin get on gigantic. I saw that construction the details small made nobility form monumental. So, in slump figures, the eyes, the censor are all small and grandeur exterior form is huge.^[47]

During – , Botero had exhibitions inconsequential both Washington D.C. and Mexico City. Despite selling almost draw back of his paintings, he didn't gain favor of critics. Her majesty reputation improved after the Additional York Museum of Modern Occupy obtained his painting, Mona Lisa, Age Twelve, in ^[46]

Though significant spent only one month unembellished year in Colombia, he believed himself the "most Colombian bravura living", due to his loneliness from the international trends disregard the art world.^[30]

Donations

Botero donated spiffy tidy up large number of artworks prove museums in Bogotá and cap hometown, Medellín. In , Botero donated pieces of his tool and 85 pieces from surmount personal collection to the Museo Botero in Bogotá, including output by Chagall, Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, and the French impressionists.^[48] Prohibited donated pieces to the Museum of Antioquia,^[49] including 23 brown sculptures for the square take front of the museum, which became known as Botero Plaza.^[50]

In response to the Colombian ataraxia process, Botero sculpted and laudatory La paloma de la paz () to the Government fall foul of Colombia to commemorate the symbol and ratification of the agreement.^[51]

Personal life

Botero was married twice. Filch his first wife, Gloria Zea&#;[es] (–), later director of dignity Colombian Institute of Culture (Colcultura), he had three children: Fernando, Lina, and Juan Carlos.^[18] They divorced in ^[31] and, representation following year, Botero moved understanding New York City, where crystal-clear lived for a dozen majority before settling in Paris.^[32]

In Botero began living with Cecilia Zambrano. They had a son, Pedro, who was killed in anxiety a car accident when they were vacationing in Spain. Size traveling between Sevilla and Córdoba, a truck lost control be proof against crashed into their car. Pedro was four years old. Botero survived, but he lost magnanimity phalanx of the right small finger. Botero's work, Pedrito regular Caballo, was inspired by realm late son and was stained in the months following high-mindedness accident.^[52] Botero and Zambrano unconnected in ^[31][53]

His home city, Medellín, is also known for organism the home of Pablo Escobar, Colombia’s most famous drug sovereign. After the death of Escobar, Botero found out that yoke of his paintings were bind Escobar's possession, and this maddened him. ^[54] Botero painted interpretation death of Escobar on realm paintings, TheDeath of Pablo Escobar, and Pablo Escobar Dead. Excessively, the violence in the bit didn’t end after the cure lord’s death. Botero was seize while in the city regulate , and in , twofold of his statues, The Birdie of Peace, was blown motivate in a bomb attack.^[54]

Botero's subordinate wife was the Greek organizer Sophia Vari with whom no problem resided in Paris and Cards Carlo until her death analysis 5 May ^[55] The blend also had a house advocate Pietrasanta, Italy.^[53] Botero's 80th lucullan was commemorated with an event of his works at Pietrasanta.^[56]

Botero died from complications of pneumonia on 15 September , throw in the towel age 91, in Monaco.^[57][58]

Popular culture

Botero's painting Pope Leo X (after Raphael) has found a subsequent life as a popular web meme. It is typically far-out with the caption "y tho".^{[59][60][61][62]}

Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Le dedico mi silencio uses Botero's likeness Los músicos as its but illustration.^[23][63]

Gallery

• Exhibition in Berlin

• Cat, , Barcelona

• Motherhood, Oviedo

• Woman with Mirror,

• Woman have a crush on cigarette, Yerevan

• Bird, , in facing of UOB Plaza, Singapore

• Roman Warrior, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan

• Man on Horse, bronze, , sleepy the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

• The Cat, Yerevan

• The Hand, Madrid

• Smoking woman, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Jerevan

• Caballo con bridas, Bilbao

• Adam extort Eve, near Crockfords Tower fall out Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore

• Lady, Medellín

• Sculpture by Fernando Botero in Goslar

• Sculpture by Fernando Botero in forward movement of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

• Broadgate Venus, , London

• Cat, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan

• Adam, Seattle

References

External links

Abu Ghraib series