Editors: Gian Serrano Ortiz. Angie Pimiento Ramirez. 11-15 2013
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INTRODUCTION TOPIC
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Biography
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His fame
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His style
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His galleries: -His museum
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-His house
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-Bank of the Republic
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(museum)
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Born in Medellin in 1932, Fernando Botero was the second of three 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 Bogotรก, 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". ABOUT4 | FERNANDO BOTERO
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 ElĂas Alejandro Obregon.
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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".
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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..
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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.
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In 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. 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.
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Since 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.
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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..
-Bank of the Republic (Museum)
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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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