Colombian-born Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work-commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history.

Acknowledgments

Message from the

Ambassador of Colombia to the United States

Botero's Baroque

John Sillevis

A Painter of Lost and Angry Pictures

David Elliott

Fernando Botero: Critical Strategies

Edward J. Sullivan

Catalogue

Biography of Fernando Botero

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