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Fernando Botero

By Luisa Escallon

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Vital Statistics

• Born April 19,1932 in Medellin, Colombia

• Living

• Father died in 1936

• Grew up in poverty QuickTime™ and a decompressor

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Personal Background

• His first passion were bulls and bullfighting

• First encountered modern art at his friends house

• He is now the Colombian Artist with the most international recognition

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Key Historical Events

• The Bogotazo;April 9,1948

• Constant Gorilla wars between the Liberal and Conservative parties

• La Violenca (the violence) 1946-1957

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Influence of the Art World

• He created and entire new style of painting

• Showed beauty through largeness

• He was influenced by Rafael Sanez

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Stylistic Traits

• Everyday Life

• Uniform and natural color pallet

• Exaggeration and and change of scale

• Still life, portraits, and landscapes

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Example Art #1

• Everyday Life: working

• Portrait

• Exaggeration: Large men and landscapes

• Natural colorsQuickTime™ and a decompressor

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Esmeralderos,1996

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Example Art #2

• Everyday Life: transportation

• Portrait

• Exaggeration: large man and horse, small landscape

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Hombre a caballo, 1998

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Example Art #3

• Everyday Life: Common Colombian town

• Landscape• Exaggeration: Size of church in

background• Uniform colors: same colors seen in many places

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Pueblo,1995

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Example Art #4

• Everyday Life: Normal desserts

• Still Life

• Exaggeration: Size of desserts

• Natural and reoccurring

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Naturaleza Muerta con Elado, 1990

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My Original Art Work

• Everyday Life: A living room

• Still Life

• Exaggeration: Size of piano, wine glass and bottle, and rug

• Uniform Colors: Same colors

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Conclusion

• The still life that I created shares the same exaggeration of size as Botero’s paintings

• I have learned how to paint common day items in detail

• The principal strength of my art work is the color scheme

• The principal weakness of my painting

are the brush stokes

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