Fernando Botero (Born Medellín, 19 April 1932) by Ima Student The following presentation contains copyrighted material used under multimedia guidelines and fair use exemptions of U.S. Copyright law. Further use is prohibited.

(Image Source: scultpure_animals_botero.html) Colombian-born painter and sculptor, best known for his satirical paintings of oversized, fleshy figures with large limbs and small bodies. Botero began making sculptures in 1971 as a natural evolution from his voluminous, three dimensional paintings, and now spends most of his summers working on sculpture at his home in Tuscany, near a reliable foundry.

La Pudeur, 1981 bronze with polished granite base 72 x 24 x 21 inches (Image Source: permanent/works/BoteroL aPudeur1980.asp#) Fernando Botero is known for his obese figures in both his paintings and sculpture. These were intended to ridicule Colombian society.

(Image Source: Title: Santa Rosa de Lima según Vásquez, 1966

Source: (Encyclopædia Britannica) When he moved to New York City in 1960, he had developed his trademark style: the depiction of round, corpulent humans and animals.

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Works Cited Blanton Museum of Art. (2007). Latin American Collection of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from Botero, Fernando. ( 2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 28, 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition: Nassau County Museum of Art. (2007). Outdoor Sculpture Garden. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from

Tanenbaum, B. A. (1999). Art, colonial to modern. Latin America history and culture (Vol. 1, 68). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Wayne, Dan. (2007). Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collection. Retrieved October 1, 2007, from Works Cited continued