 | Fernando Botero, one of the best known contemporary Colombian artists, is a painter, sculptor and draftsman who has gained his reputation with his baroque and humorous compositions. These strange, amusing and profoundly personal works combine in an inspired manner the polishes, details and excess of colonial Spanish baroque and the realism with social accents launched by the Mexican muralists, among who the most famous is without a doubt Frida Kahlo. |
For Fernando Botero this kind of works, which shock and amuse at the same time, are a manner - unique - of adressing much more serious, even dramatical, subjects : colonialism, political instability in South America, the artistc tradition in this place, the influence of European art on Latin America.
The Delaware Art Museum in the US will open next year an exhibition showcasing a selection of the artist's works, presenting to the American art lovers a tallented, unique and important Colombian artist. |  |
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2007-10-02
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