fernando botero

FERNANDO BOTERO

GIAN SERRANO ORTIZ ANGIE PIMIENTO RAMIREZ 11-15 P. B. I.

INTRODUCTIONTOPIC PAGE

Biography 1 - 5His fame 6 His style 7His galleries: -His museum 8 -His house 9 -Bank of the Republic 10

(museum)

Born in Medellin in 1932, Fernando Botero was the second of three

ABOUT | FERNANDO BOTERO

sons of the couple formed by David Botero and Flora Angulo Mejia Botero. Although in his youth he was for a short time at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid and that of San Marco in Florence, his artistic training was self-taught. His first known works are the illustrations published in the literary supplement of the newspaper El Colombiano, his hometown.

At 19th years he traveled to Bogotá, where he made his first individual exhibition of watercolors, gouaches, inks and oils in the Leo Matiz Gallery, and proceeds lived some time in Tolu. In his time there the oil would Oceanfront, with which he won the second prize for painting, consisting of two thousand dollars, at the Ninth Annual Exhibition of Colombian artists. The critic Walter Engel, in The Time August 17, 1952, found that he had "a strong composition, well built and well done," but the writer Luis Vidales criticized him for his "inconceptual elongation of the figures".

Botero then traveled to Europe, where he lived for four years, mainly in Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and Florence. Although entered in the academies mentioned, followed formed the basis of reading,


visiting museums and, above all, to paint, as he would. He then traveled to Mexico, New York and Washington in a period of feverish creation and low income, with his wife Gloria Zea. Back in Colombia, Botero shared the second prize and silver medal at the Salon of Colombian artists X with Triana and Jorge Elías Alejandro Obregon.

His oil Counterpoint was unanimously praised by critics for his contagious joy.The camera degli sposi won first prize at the XI National Exhibition held in September 1958. In this work Botero managed to get rid of a distant influence of Mexican muralists and head, without hesitation and by his admiration for Italian Renaissance artists, towards the consolidation of what some call the "boteroformismo".

The painter had for four years expressed his admiration for the serene monumentality of Paolo Uccello and Marta Lock so called "a Renaissance stone-block for the design of forms", who also managed Piero


della Francesca, in the Homage to Mantegna, exacerbation of volumes and the success or basic geometric shapes (which Walter Engel associated with pre-Columbian sculptures of St. Augustine) achieved the birth of a painting "profoundly original, so antibarroca as anticlassical, as antiexpresionista as antiabstracta" in the words of Job. Anyway, the prize at the XI Salon was consecration..

From 1961 and 1973 he settled in New York. Then live in Paris, alternating his residence in the French capital with long stays in Pietrasanta or his estate in the village of Tabio Cundinamarca. By 1964, Fernando Botero made his first forays into the field of sculpture with works such as Head Bishop figure, paste made of sawdust and glass eyes, had clear echoes of colonial baroque imagery. Since 1975, in Pietrasanta, be devoted to sculpture excitedly, "It seemed as if all this universe was developed monumental figures in the painting, writes Escallón-had found an echo in the three-dimensional full. Nowadays, one feeds the other. Much of imaginative wealth comes from the paint, giving you ideas,


solutions, possibilities ... Botero dismantles pictorial structure to synthesize how sculptural unit. "In 1977 he exhibited his bronzes for the first time at the Grand Palais in Paris. After four decades of uninterrupted work, recognition in the field of sculpture became universal. Apotheosis was the exhibition of his enormous sculptures on the Champs Elysees in Paris during the summer of 1992, and in the following year on Fifth Avenue in New York, Buenos Aires and Madrid.

Already become one of the most sought after live performers in the world, Botero has never stopped, however, to speak out against injustice and to keep their art in line with the historical and social reality. Presented in 2005 at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the disturbing force of this collection of fifty canvases also testified that the pulse and the artist's creativity has not diminished at all over the years.


HIS FAMEIn 1962 was organized his first exhibition in the U.S. A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Center received largely positive reviews. Thus began a period Botero and exhibitions between Europe, the United States and his homeland, Colombia. Exhibited in Paris in 1969, was from that moment that Botero began a pilgrimage around the world in search of inspiration continuously moved from Bogota to New York and Europe.

In 1970 was born in New York his son Pedro Botero, commonly called Pedrito. Meanwhile, his fame grew more and then turned it on the most quoted living sculptor of the planet. In 1974, when his son was only four years old, Botero had a traffic accident in Spain, which killed Pedrito.

Botero is one of the few artists who has had the luxury to exhibit their works in several of the most famous avenues and squares in the world, such as the Champs Elysees in Paris, the New York Grand Avenue, Paseo de


Recoletos in Madrid the Lisbon Commerce Square, the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, opposite the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City and even the Pyramids of Egypt.

HIS STYLESince its inception Botero has turned to genre scenes, initially with a dark colored brushstrokes (with occasional strong contrasts) close to expressionism and from the late sixties, has used a touch closed, with figures and more defined contours.At the edge of contemporary art that road, Botero has installed five decades an art school with a graduate: himself.


In his recent work, Botero has used thematically to the political situation in Colombia and the world. For example, the series of "Abu Ghraib" consists of 78 pictures that try to represent the horrors of torture and war related to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the events of Abu Ghraib Prison from of the statements of the people there tortured.

His galleries:-His museum


In 2000 he donated an art collection of 208 works, 123 of its own making and 85 international artists. This collection was founded Botero Museum, located in the La Candelaria, Bogota's historic center, in a colonial mansion that worked until 1955 as Archbishop of the city, and was restored and adapted as a museum by the Central Bank, under the rules and curating the master himself Botero. From 1 November 2000 the collection has been available to the public..

On the eastern side of the house, showcasing the Botero Museum's international collection, 85 works of the highest quality that give a

complete idea of the evolution of modern painting and sculpture, being the oldest work au tambourin Gitane

(before 1862) of Camille Corot and the most recent, the


big oil Barceló (1998). -His house

During the year 86 the house again received the Court, the destruction of the Palace of Justice on November 85, knocked the institution offices, forcing the adaptation of the building and the return of the archive to the Library building.The growth Bank Art Collection of the Republic, made it necessary to get a place

to show the public the works permanently, so in 1995 he started new adaptation works in December for the first selection 96 works from the collection.

Once again the house is closed in 2000, the Art Collection moved to the second floor of the Mint and its walls are prepared to receive, since November, the 183 works of Botero Donation, leaving the cold White empty walls and furniture to the


color got the pleasure of art.

-Bank of the Republic (Museum)

The 208 works of art donated to the museum, he said"For me it is an infinite pleasure to know that these works belong to Colombia today, know that students entering this house, come into contact with the most important artistic movements of our time, looking here permanently, original works of great masters, namely that lovers of painting and sculpture can come to visit this haven of peace

and quiet walk through these halls, leaving flooded by modern aesthetics. Make it as


this little oasis of culture amid the frenzy of city life. "


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