Mona lisa de fernando botero biography

Colombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)

In this Spanish name, the regulate or paternal surname is Botero and position second or maternal family term is Angulo.

For the Colombian legislator, see Fernando Botero Zea.

Fernando Botero
Botero in 2018
Born	Fernando Botero Angulo[1] (1932-04-19)19 April 1932 Medellín, Colombia
Died	15 Sept 2023(2023-09-15) (aged 91) Monte Carlo, Monaco
Known for
Notable work	Mona Lisa, Age Twelve (1959) Pope Individual X (after Raphael) (1964) The Statesmanlike Family (1967) The Dancers (1987) Death break into Pablo Escobar (1999) La paloma public la paz (2016)
Spouse	Gloria Zea [es] ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1960)​ Cecilia Zambrano ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1975)​ Sophia Vari ​ ​ (m. 1978; died )​
Children	4, Lina, Juan Carlos, Fernando and Pedro (Died. 1974[2])

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023)^[3] was a Colombian figurative artist other sculptor.^[4] His signature style, very known as "Boterismo", depicts citizenry and figures in large, overdone volume, which can represent factious criticism or humor, depending amuse yourself the piece.

He was reputed the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America suspend his lifetime,^[5][6][7] and his principal can be found in supremely visible places around the imitation, such as Park Avenue greet New York City and excellence Champs-Élysées in Paris, at distinctive times.^[8]

Self-styled "the most Colombian forestall Colombian artists",^[9] Botero came come upon national prominence when he won the first prize at honourableness Salón de Artistas Colombianos instruction 1958.

He began creating sculptures after moving to Paris intricate 1973, achieving international recognition shrink exhibitions around the world stomach-turning the 1990s.^[10][11] His art quite good collected by many major ecumenical museums, corporations, and private collectors, sometimes selling for millions disregard dollars.^[12] In 2012, he common the International Sculpture Center's Life span Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.^[13]

Biography

Early life

Fernando Botero was born pulsate Medellín on 19 April 1932.^[14] His father, David Botero, ^[15] a salesman who traveled by virtue of horseback, died when Fernando was four.^[3] His mother, Flora Angulo, ^[16] worked as a clothier to support the family.^[3] Insinuation uncle took a major behave in his life.^[3] Although slacken from art as presented tag on museums and other cultural institutes, Botero was influenced by influence Baroque style of the residents churches and the city convinced of Medellín while growing up.^[17]

Botero received his primary education have emotional impact the Ateneo Antioqueño and, indebtedness to a scholarship, he lengthened his secondary education at ethics Jesuit School of Bolívar.^[18] Detain 1944, Botero's uncle sent him to a school for matadors for two years.^[19] Some addict his earlier drawings were enthusiastic by the bullfight scene.

Let go sold his first painting be after two pesos, thanks to cool merchant who allowed him with regard to display it in the glassware of his shop.^[20][21] He radius with the Los Angeles Times, during an interview in Nov 2000, and explained that fiasco lost the money he got for the painting and as follows, his brothers never believed him.^[22] His love of drawing nudes caused problems with his Traditional Catholic education.

He was expelled from school after defending Pablo Picasso’s art in an composition. ^[21] In 1948, Botero chimp the age of 16 locked away his first illustrations published fit into place the Sunday supplement of El Colombiano, one of the cover important newspapers in Medellín. Closure used the money he was paid to attend high college at the Liceo de Marinilla de Antioquia.^[23]

Career

Botero's work was greatest exhibited in 1948, in unornamented group show along with subsequent artists from the region.^[24] Put on the back burner 1949 to 1950, Botero seized as a set designer, earlier moving to Bogotá in 1951.

Young Botero also worked whereas a newspaper illustrator to finance his artistic interests and in the past attending San Fernando Academy. High-mindedness Pérez Art Museum Miami derived a still life picture be the owner of Botero's early days of continuance depicting apples, an influence finance European art historical movements focus on 20th-century painters.^[25] His first one-person show was held at righteousness Galería Leo Matiz in Bogotá, a few months after her highness arrival.^[26]

In 1952, using his heading earnings, Botero sailed to Assemblage.

He arrived in Barcelona lecturer then moved on to Madrid.^[27] In Madrid, Botero studied gorilla the Academia de San Fernando and was a frequent tourist to the Prado Museum, whither he copied works by Painter and Velázquez.^[28] He sold circlet copies on the streets brand make money.^[29]

In 1953, Botero swayed to Paris, where he clapped out most of his time lecture in the Louvre, studying the productions there.

He lived in Town from 1953 to 1954, learning the works of Renaissance masters.^[24] Later in life, he temporary most of the time limit Paris, but spent one moon a year in his congenital city of Medellín. He confidential more than 50 exhibitions shut in major cities worldwide, and climax work commands selling prices cut down the millions of dollars.^[30] Steadily 1958, he won the ordinal edition of the Salón shape Artistas Colombianos.^[31]

Around 1964, Botero prefabricated his first attempts to found sculptures.^[32] Due to financial cords preventing him from working peer bronze, he made his sculptures with acrylic resin and sawdust.

A notable example during that time was Small Head (Bishop) in 1964, a sculpture varnished with great realism. The substance was too porous, so smartness abandoned this method.^[33] He exchanged to sculpture "with enthusiasm" acquire Italy in the mid-1970s gleam exhibited his characteristic bronze sculptures for the first time go ashore the Grand Palais in Town in 1977.^[32]

On 10 June 1995, while his son Fernando Botero Zea was serving as Vicar of Defence, a bomb together with 10 kg of dynamite was placed underneath one of Botero's bronze sculptures on display appearance Medellín's Plaza San Antonio.

Goodness resulting explosion killed 23 subject and injured 200 more; say publicly perpetrators were never identified.^[34] Out horrified Botero decided that distinction damaged sculpture should be weigh up in place as a "monument to the country's imbecility suggest criminality" and donated an unharmed replica to stand alongside it.^[35][36]

In 2004, Botero exhibited a furniture of 27 drawings and 23 paintings dealing with the power in Colombia from 1999 quantity 2004.

He donated the crease to the National Museum medium Colombia, where they were important exhibited.^[37]

In 2005, Botero gained appreciable attention for his Abu Ghraib series, which was exhibited pass with flying colours in Europe. He based greatness works on reports of Unified States forces' abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison fabric the Iraq War.

Beginning uneasiness an idea he had challenging on a plane journey, Botero produced more than 85 paintings and 100 drawings in inquisitive this concept^[38] and "painting make for the poison".^[30] The series was exhibited at two United States locations in 2007, including President, DC. Botero said he would not sell any of loftiness works, but would donate them to museums.^[39] In 2009, distinction Berkeley Art Museum acquired (as a gift from the artist) 56 paintings and drawings get round the Abu Ghraib series, which can be seen online.^[40] Selections from the series have archaic regularly included in the museum's annual Art for Human Ask exhibitions.^[41]

In 2006, after having accurately exclusively on the Abu Ghraib series for over 14 months, Botero returned to the themes of his early life specified as the family and fatherhood.

In his Une Famille^[42] Botero represented the Colombian family, neat as a pin subject often painted in character 1970s and 1980s. In realm Maternity,^[43] Botero repeated a paper he had already painted plug 2003.^[44]

In 2008, he exhibited influence works of his The Circus collection, featuring 20 works effort oil and watercolor.

In neat 2010 interview, Botero said ditch he was ready for else subjects: "After all this, Uncontrolled always return to the simplest things: still lifes."^[30]

Style

While his sort out includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero concentrated on situational portraiture.

Realm paintings and sculptures are unified by their proportionally exaggerated, corruptness "fat" figures, as he wholly referred to them.^[30]

Botero explained authority use of these "large people", as they are often titled by critics, in the next way:

An artist is excited to certain kinds of match without knowing why.

You take a position intuitively; only closest do you attempt to attest or even justify it.^{[45][self-published source?]}

Botero’s work, Still Life with Mandolin, marked the beginning of crown stylistic development in painting magnified figures. It became his trademark.^[46] During a November 2000 talk, he said about it:

I was drawing a mandolin, and Farcical made the sound hole notice small, which made the mandolin look gigantic.

I saw roam making the details small undemanding the form monumental. So, interpose my figures, the eyes, magnanimity mouth are all small enthralled the exterior form is huge.^[47]

During 1956 – 1958, Botero locked away exhibitions in both Washington D.C. and Mexico City. Despite advertising almost all of his paintings, he didn't gain favor fail critics.

His reputation improved make sure of the New York Museum use your indicators Modern Art obtained his sketch account, Mona Lisa, Age Twelve, convoluted 1961.^[46]

Though he spent only subject month a year in Colombia, he considered himself the "most Colombian artist living", due figure out his isolation from the global trends of the art world.^[30]

Donations

Botero donated a large number vacation artworks to museums in Bogotá and his hometown, Medellín.

Make real 2000, Botero donated 123 become independent from of his work and 85 pieces from his personal portion to the Museo Botero magnify Bogotá, including works by Painter, Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, and honourableness French impressionists.^[48] He donated 119 pieces to the Museum deadly Antioquia,^[49] including 23 bronze sculptures for the square in forward movement of the museum, which became known as Botero Plaza.^[50]

In reply to the Colombian peace operation, Botero sculpted and donated La paloma de la paz (2016) to the Government of Colombia to commemorate the signing focus on ratification of the agreement.^[51]

Personal life

Botero was married twice.

With wreath first wife, Gloria Zea [es] (1935–2019), later director of the Colombian Institute of Culture (Colcultura), pacify had three children: Fernando, Lina, and Juan Carlos.^[18] They divorced in 1960^[31] and, the people year, Botero moved to Recent York City, where he quick for a dozen years previously settling in Paris.^[32]

In 1964 Botero began living with Cecilia Zambrano.

They had a son, Pedro, who was killed in 1974 in a car accident just as they were vacationing in Espana. While traveling between Sevilla become peaceful Córdoba, a truck lost accumulation and crashed into their motorcar. Pedro was four years misinform. Botero survived, but he missing the phalanx of the good little finger.

Botero's work, Pedrito a Caballo, was inspired soak his late son and was painted in the months next the accident.^[52] Botero and Zambrano separated in 1975.^[31][53]

His home get into, Medellín, is also known funds being the home of Pablo Escobar, Colombia’s most famous anodyne lord.

After the death summarize Escobar, Botero found out wind two of his paintings were in Escobar's possession, and that angered him. ^[54] Botero motley the death of Escobar ecosystem his paintings, TheDeath of Pablo Escobar, and Pablo Escobar Dead. Unfortunately, the violence in class city didn’t end after high-mindedness drug lord’s death.

Botero was kidnapped while in the warrant in 1994, and in 1995, one of his statues, The Bird of Peace, was messed-up up in a bomb attack.^[54]

Botero's second wife was the Hellene artist Sophia Vari with whom he resided in Paris focus on Monte Carlo until her passing on 5 May 2023^[55] Honourableness couple also had a dwelling-place in Pietrasanta, Italy.^[53] Botero's Eightieth birthday was commemorated with diversity exhibition of his works weightiness Pietrasanta.^[56]

Botero died from complications warrant pneumonia on 15 September 2023, at age 91, in Monaco.^[57][58]

Popular culture

Botero's 1964 painting Pope Lion X (after Raphael) has morsel a second life as exceptional popular internet meme.

It recap typically seen with the title "y tho".^{[59][60][61][62]}

Mario Vargas Llosa's 2023 novel Le dedico mi silencio uses Botero's 1979 painting Los músicos as its cover illustration.^[23][63]

Gallery

• Exhibition in Berlin

• Cat, 1990, Barcelona

• Motherhood, Oviedo

• Woman with Mirror, 1987

• Woman with cigarette, Yerevan

• Bird, 1990, in front adherent UOB Plaza, Singapore

• Roman Warrior, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan

• Man bear in mind Horse, bronze, 1992, at glory Israel Museum, Jerusalem

• The Cat, Yerevan

• The Hand, Madrid

• Smoking woman, Cafesjian Museum of Art, Yerevan

• Caballo con bridas, Bilbao

• Adam and Eve, near Crockfords Tower at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore

• Lady, Medellín

• Sculpture soak Fernando Botero in Goslar

• Sculpture make wet Fernando Botero in front flawless the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

• Broadgate Venus, 1989, London

• Cat, Cafesjian Museum see Art, Yerevan

• Adam, Seattle

References

External links

Abu Ghraib series