Fernando Botero

Columbian painter and sculptor, born in 1932. His paintings and  sculptures are mainly known because they reproduce enlarged, exaggerated, round, grotesque forms. The portraits don’t save any social class: cardinals, tyrants, redundant and excessive historical figures. An effect which refers to wealth, pleasure, vanity and to being so full of themselves.

Some of his bronze sculptures weigh up to 10 quintals and have been exhibited in the most important cities in the world.

A note about his works: the round fruits, as lemon, are nearly always present in the still lives also with men and women portraits.