The man who created the fanciful rotundity that has graced the art realm with the exaggerated gordas and relaunched the neo-figurative movement, Colombian-born global artist Fernando Botero died last week at 91 leaving a prolific body of work and an indelible mark on the world of art.
Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose whimsical, ballooning figures gained him worldwide acclaim and elevated the global profile of Latin American art, died in Monaco on September 15 at the age of ninety-one. The cause, according to his close friend Mauricio Vallejo, a co-owner of Houston’s Art of the World gallery, was complications of pneumonia. Botero’s crowd-pleasing works typically played with volume and scale a rotund woman might smoke a miniature cigarette through tiny pursed lips; a hugely curving mandolin might feature a diminutive sound aperture and commented on subjects
Tributes to Fernando Botero were plentiful on Friday night on social media. The Colombian artist, who died on Friday in Monaco at 91, left his mark in public and private collections in Miami.
By Jeimmy Paola Sierra Medellin, Colombia, Apr 19 (EFE).- With art, flowers and music, Medellin on Tuesday celebrated the 90th birthday of Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero, one of the most important artists of the 20 century, with a gesture of gratitude for illuminating with his works a city that was living in darkness. At the …