Fernando Botero
Botero, Fernando (1932- ), Colombian painter and sculptor who is noted for the round, slightly comic figures that began to appear in his works during the 1960s.
Born in Medellín, Colombia, Botero attended a school for matadors from 1944 to 1946. He first exhibited his paintings in 1948 in Medellín with other artists from the region. At that time he was influenced by the work of Mexican artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco. After working briefly as a theater set designer, he moved in 1951 to Bogotá, Colombia's capital. His paintings of this period show the influences of French painter Paul Gauguin and of early work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. In 1952 Botero began studies at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Spain, visiting the Prado Museum daily. He went to Paris in 1953, studying the old masters in the Louvre Museum. Later that year, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he studied such Italian masters as Giotto and Piero della......
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