Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings - Softcover

Botero, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791318101 ISBN 13: 9783791318103

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 1997

Synopsis

Provides 108 colorplates of the Colombian painter's work, offers essays which analyze these pieces, and includes six illustrated stories also by the painter

About this title

Review:

Fernando Botero describes himself as "the most Colombian of Colombian painters." His vibrantly colorful pictures of voluptuously plump personalities from every walk of life have been exhibited widely since the 1960s, when they stood in stark contrast to the prevalence of abstract expressionism in New York's art scene. Influenced by the baroque, Latin American folk art, and Italian fresco, as well as the works of artists such as Velázquez, Goya, and Titian, Botero states, "I have no metaphysical messages. I consider myself a painter, nothing more." This pocket-sized booklet of 18 detachable postcards includes a charming array of his humorous and colorful figurative images. --A.C. Smith

From the Inside Flap:

One of the most celebrated living artists in Latin America, Fernando Botero has gained international fame capturing the whimsy of life by painting corpulent and comical figures.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 3791318101
• ISBN 13: 9783791318103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Spies Werner