Fernando Botero

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

This Wednesday, artist Fernando Botero will be on hand to sign books at the 53rd Street MoMA Store. http://bit.ly/1rS1nMu
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覺得Fernando Botero筆下的女性份外親切。

 2005朋友從南美"寫給台灣的情書" 提到他的美術館. 貼一段他的話Fernando Botero

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Fernando Botero"It's important to recognize the source of the pleasure we get from a painting. For me, it is 'joie de vivre' combined with the sensuousness of the forms. So for me the problem is how to create sensuousness through form."
這Botero在諸如OXford Dictionary of Artist等 都只簡單介紹而已

The Big, Fat Art of Fernando Botero Fernando Botero, dubbed The 'Picasso of South America', returns to the humble house of his childhood in Colombia..

The Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero is one of the world’s most successful living artists. For more than 40 years, he’s produced works - often featuring generously-proportioned figures in brightly-coloured landscapes - that have been coveted by wealthy collectors all over the world.

With homes in Paris, Monte Carlo and Manhattan, his success has given him an enviable lifestyle – an existence far removed from his impoverished childhood in the tough barrios of Medellin.

However, Botero has never forgotten his roots. He grew up in the very same districts as the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar (who has featured in one of Botero’s most controversial pictures).

Likewise, his latest paintings, which depict the victims of torture at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison - express Botero's horror at the plight of the people of Iraq.

In this film, Steve Smith accompanies Botero as he returns to his troubled homeland, where he has been the target of numerous kidnap attempts and must now be escorted by armed guards.

As Botero arrives, he discovers that a political firestorm has engulfed his son - a charismatic politician who faces years in prison following allegations of corruption.

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Showing on BBC World News on Saturday 7th June at 0810 GMT. Repeating Saturday 7th at 1710 and on Sunday 8th at 0110 and 1410 GMT.

在異鄉發現台灣（第10篇）2005
標題：我們來自香格里拉 攝影。文／林世煜

Fenando Botero (sic)是哥倫比亞最富盛名的畫家
他畫的男女貓狗馬都圓圓胖胖
波哥大那座美術館和其中的收藏
都是他的捐贈
導覽老師很用心說明
但那些穿制服的學童
像天下所有的小朋友
難免百無聊賴
他們對我們倆更有興趣

兩張罕見的東方臉孔
拿著相機笑嘻嘻照過來
打破美術館午後的沈悶
小朋友都開心極了