Preview

Biography of Fernando Botero

Better Essays
Open Document
Open Document
852 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Biography of Fernando Botero
fernando botero
Patrick Duffy
Senora Torres
Spanish 3
May 18, 2010 Fernando Botero Fernando Botero, also named the most Colombian of Colombian artists, has developed a style the world notices as his own. Fernando was born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia. Fernando came across heavy schooling as a child, which isolated him from traditional art in museums and such cultural institutions. It was his strict school however that brought art to be an interest for Fernando, the school Botero attended was run by Jesuits who were strict and brought little enjoyment into Botero’s life. To find enjoyment Botero began to draw at a young age. At that young age his inspiration was anything that interest him such as bullfighting. Fernando was a great fan of bullfights so he would paint scenes of this then sold them in front of the arena for 5 pesos. He spent nearly two years painting this subject. He had a growing interest in art his entire life; he shared his thoughts, and studied. When Botero was seventeen he worked for the Medellin newspaper, El Colombiano, titled Picasso and the Nonconformity of Art, which showed Botero’s mind and how it is linked with art. Botero is so well known because of his signature style, robust and round objects and characters. Botero tells critics that he is simply attracted to his form without knowing why. He claims that artists never know why artists use a form, he claims the style is intuitive and that the explanation for their style can be rationalized after it’s adopted. Botero is difficult to understand, as he doesn’t share his opinion with his art or even explaining his art. “He shares his vision with us but not telling us how to feel about it.” Navas- Nieves says. We know his works are personal as some of his famous works depict his youth, “The Bishop”, “The Nun”, “The Bullfighter”, and “The Widow”. It is unknown to all except Botero however if these drawings reflect the beauty with these no proportional, bright colored, exaggerated



Bibliography: http://www.gazette.com/entertainment/botero-55230-work-style.html http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=fernando_botero http://www.fernando-botero.com/ http://biography.jrank.org/pages/3286/Botero-Fernando-1932-Artist-Developed-Signature-Style.html http://metroartwork.com/fernando-botero-biography-artwork-m-36.html http://greatmastersofart.com/fernando_botero_intro.html http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2006/11/crucified-smurfs.html http://www.thenation.com/article/body-pain

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Sandro Botticelli

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Sandro Botticelli, real name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, was one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His work, Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, captures his highly personalized style. He is known for his execution and precise use of lines to portray objects realistically. The Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap will be the source of our discussion, but first a background of Sandro Botticelli's artistic relations is necessary.…

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Sandro Botticelli

    • 972 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Botticelli is one of the most famous artists during the Italian Renaissance. He was very well know for the portrayal of the female figure and his ability to incorporate femininity as a symbol of life itself and/or nature illustrated by the changes of seasons. Botticelli most famous figure was that of Venus, the goddess of love. She was incorporated into two of his most famous works, The Birth of Venus and Primavera. Most of Botticelli's women had that typical hourglass figure to them . During the time period in which these works were created, women with the physical characteristics of Venus were considered to be the ideal feminine figure. These women were considered to be ideal because during this era, flesh was a symbol of health, wealth, and stability ("Sandro …", 1). Women of this built were obviously healthy because this showed that they ate well and were thus financially secure. Thin women on the other hand were viewed as being poor and thus underfed and unhealthy due to lack of funds and hard labor. Also, men viewed Venus (especially her wide hips) to be the perfect figure, because they saw that type of figure to be designed especially for the purposes of child bearing (Turner 151). Venus, the goddess of love, is illustrated in Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, as the ultimate glorification of the female figure, because this painting depicts the beginning of all beginnings, which is the birth of the goddess of love herself. It depicts this image because she is drawn as a "pure" person, not knowing much about what is happening. Botticelli does not show any signs of disrespect towards women. In fact in this painting, even though the goddess is Rizzo 2 nude, he depicts her in such a fashion that shows she has self-confidence and lack of embarrassment. The arm that covers her breasts and the log hair covering the genitals is how she is preventing herself from being "exposed" and essentially how he maintains her modesty (Dempsey, 35). Botticelli also…

    • 972 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Central to Degas's lifelong project, and a vital point of contact with the rising generation, was the depiction of the human figure. Though he valued the landscape more than is generally realized, it was the body in a thousand states of repose and action that commanded his attention throughout the fifty years of his creative life; ‘we were made in order to look at each other', the artist observed to Sickert in old…

    • 480 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born circa June 6 1599 in Seville, Spain (Biography.com). Due to the fact that he was born in 16 century Spain, he was born into the Habsburg time period if Spain (enforex.com). His parents were well do citizens of the town, and his father could claim noble descent by the Silva family (Troutman 7). He is regarded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as, “the most admired—perhaps the greatest—European painter who ever lived.” He is most known for “capturing the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint” (metmuseum.com).…

    • 349 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pablo Picasso Cubism

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Pablo Picasso is a widely acknowledged Spanish artist in the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881.Cubism was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. In 1909, Picasso used cubism influenced by Paul Cezanne created an artwork called “The Factory at Horta de Ebro”. The painting is a cluster of three dimensional buildings and a wide range of colour tones. In the image the foreground displays an uneven cube with a path of the tones of green blended in with the orange and creating the tones of orange. The middle ground displays dark tones of the dark olive green and a slight of grey. It is coloured in a triangular form which is different from other objects. In the background coconut trees are displayed next to a high and slim building. “When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us”. – Pablo Picasso.…

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    For example, portraiture is inherently an individualist medium, differing greatly from collectivist murals. Moreover, cubism is a European invention and the subject matter is devoid of the political flare that brightens Rivera’s social-realist murals. Though these claims ring true, the progress and alignment with the politics of Rivera’s later years evident in Portrait of Marevna are parallels of sublety. Portrait of Marevna does not fully subscribe to the criteria laid out by the El Machete manifesto, however, it provides the groundwork for it to blossom into something as prosperous and promising as the calla lilies in Rivera’s Flower…

    • 1405 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Clown In The Street

    • 101 Words
    • 1 Page

    The three principles of design represented in the wood cut print O Palhaco na Rua, The Clown in the Street by Jose Francisco Borges are unity and variety, symmetrical and emphasis and subordination. Similar shape of eyes, eyebrows and heads the artist used show unity, but the use of different colors show variety. Also by using different colors and the size of the clown we can see that the clown is the emphasis of this piece of art. The clown is close to being symmetrical except for the colors used for his clothes and hair and the size of his ears.…

    • 101 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Primitivism Essay

    • 1558 Words
    • 7 Pages

    These simple, natural works are intense in their expression of power and meaning thus providing artist such as Nolde and Gauguin with inspiration and direction for their works, showing them how to create simple yet expressive works of art that are moving and captivating to the viewer. Emil…

    • 1558 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Born October, 25th 1881 in Malaga Spain, Pablo Picasso became one of the most well-known and influential artists of the 20th century. His father, Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, was an art teacher and a painter. From an early age he showed interest in art and loved to doodle. According to biography.com by the time Pablo was “13 years old his paintings were already better executed than his father 's.” In his lifetime Picasso was known for being a womanizer in his personal life and a visionary in the art world.…

    • 1405 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Picasso’s use of abstract shapes and colors lends to the work’s ambiguity; this gives the audience the freedom of interpretation based on their perspective. Similarly, if you give a group of five engineers an open-ended project, one can almost guarantee five different end-products. The difference in results can mainly be attributed to the spectrum of the group’s perspective.…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Dohgyoung Ahn Analysis

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The style of Negotiating Duality is homogenous to Picasso’s disconcerting and unconventional paintings. My attempt to ascertain and compare the two style of paintings can be condensed into contrasting Ahn’s work to Picasso’s masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In Les Demoisellse d’Avignon, arguably Picasso’s magnum opus, the women have menacing and unproportioned body shapes. Likewise, Ahn’s paintings showcase twisted arms, incomplete torsos, and abnormal heads, all eerily disconnected. Many of Pablo Picasso’s artworks are enshrined as the epitomes of the Cubism art movement. Both Picasso’s and Ahn’s artworks are unorthodox paintings; Nevertheless, both prove that however bizarre a painting is, it can be still be enticing and…

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    In humanities, it is discussed that there are different factors that affect an artist; who, in this case, is Jimmy Alcantara.…

    • 339 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Pablo Picasso

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I am going to be talking about the famous spanish painter Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was a famous spanish painter during the early 1900's. He was also a famous sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, and stage designer. He was most famous for his paintings. He painted in an abstract manner which changed the effects of the paintings. Picasso's paintings are found in many museums. These painting are divided into many periods that correspond to his life.…

    • 468 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Pablo Picasso

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages

    In the past, there was a great deal of mystery when it came to creativity and creative undertakings (Dickhut, 2001, p.2). Creativity still has not been correctly defined within the world of science. Creativity can be easily confused with intelligence, wisdom, ingenuity, insight, or intuition, all of these terms can be found in different dictionaries to define or explain creativity and creative behaviors. There are various components of creativity, including abstraction, connection, perspective, curiosity, boldness, paradox, complexity, and persistence. Several of these components can be used to described Pablo Picasso one of the world most famous artist that exsifile the word creativity.In this paper I will explore Pablo Picasso creativity and why some consider him to be a genus .We will visist his creative process, how his recoginioze problems and issues and what made him different and how he stood out from the rest of his peers and socitey .A famous quote from Pablo Picasso " I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it".…

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Fernando Botero was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932. He was the son of a Colombian traveling salesman. At the age of twelve, Fernando Botero would receive training as a matador along with his usual school education. When he was sixteen, he attended his first exhibition along with other painter at Antioquia in Medellin. In 1951, at the age of nineteen, Fernando Botero moved to Bogota, Colombia’s capital. He shortly received his first solo exhibition at the Leo Matiz gallery. Botero later on went to Madrid, Spain to study art in both the 'Academia San Fernando' and the “Prado museum”. He then took his studies to Italy in 1953 where he studied art history. For a long time, Botero studied the technique of fresco painting and also copied some works from Giotto and Anrea del Castagno. After two years in Italy, He returned to Bogota, and an exhibition of his works in Italy flopped. In 1956, Botero married Gloria Zea and then moved to Mexico with her. While in Mexico, Botero was able to find his own style of painting, with the influence of the mural painting of Diego Rivera. Eventually Botero became the most famous young artist from Colombia and was also appointed as a professor for painting at the Bogota Art Academy. Botero moved to New York in 1960 and attained the Guggenheim National Prize for Colombia. However, in the same year he also split up with his wife. In 1965 Botero’s original style of painting became shown in his painting “The Pizon Familly”. Botero had created a plastic style of painting. He traveled to Europe in 1966 for his important European exhibition at the “Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden”. He followed his European exhibition with his first exhibition in a United States museum at the Milwaukee Art Center in the month of December. His U.S. exhibition lead to a breakthrough in the USA. Botero spent the following years in Colombia, Europe, and New York. Botero re-married in 1970 and had a first child named Pedro.…

    • 448 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays