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Boterismo Still Life
Born in 1932, Colombian artist Fernando Botero started creating his
Boterismo art pieces – paintings, sketches, sculptures – during the 1950s while living in Mexico. Besides Leonardo da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa, Botero shared his interpretations of other Old Masters, like Jan van Eyck’s
“
Girl with a Pearl Earring”), all of which we descanted in Art History 101. No other living artist has a more eminent oeuvre than Botero.
My two-day visit to Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, could not be more adventitious and indelible. (It took place a day after I attended that year’s Rio de Janeiro Carnival – an essential destination in every peregrinator’s bucket list!) The tour guide asked me what I yearned to see in this verdant metropolis on high plateau. For one unfamiliar with the transcontinental nation, only Botero, Gabriel García Márquez, and cartel came to mind, none of which enthralled. In 2000, Botero donated both his own work and hi
Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2021 cancelled
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Rio De Janeiro, Jan 22 : Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has announced the cancellation of this year s carnival due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I have never hidden my passion for Carnival and the clear vision I have of the economic importance this cultural expression has for our city. However, it seems pointless to me to imagine that we will have the conditions to hold Carnival in July, Xinhua news agency quoted Paes as saying in a statement on Thursday.
The carnival was originally scheduled for February 13-16, but was postponed to the middle of the year due to the pandemic.
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