Header
Header FernandoBotero.com
Biography Art Films Links Contact Shop
Separator

FernandoBotero.com is your single largest online source
for Fernando Botero information, art, books, links and more!

Biography

Fernando Botero Fernando Botero's distinctive style of smooth inflated shapes with unexpected shifts in scale is today instantly recognizable. It reflects the artist's constant search to give volume presence and reality. The parameters of proportion in his world are innovative and almost always surprising. Appropriating themes from all of art history-- from the Middle Ages, the Italian quattrocento, and Latin American colonial art to the modern trends of the 20th century--Botero transforms them to his own particular style.

Born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia, Botero became interested in painting at an early age. His artistic precocity was evident in an illustrated article he contributed to the Medellin newspaper El Colombiano when he was seventeen. [Read More]

Botero's Art

"The Letter" by Fernando Botero
"The Letter"
"Bedroom" by Fernando Botero
"Bedroom"
"Dancers" by Fernando Botero
"Dancers"

See more art...