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    Fernando Botero, a celebrated Colombian artist known for his sculptures and paintings featuring corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. As the president of Colombia noted, Botero's works depicted both the traditions and defects of Colombian culture. Born in 1932 in Colombia, Botero gained worldwide fame for exaggerating the sizes of his subjects in both comical and serious works addressing politics and other topics.

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    Fernando Botero, a celebrated Colombian artist known for his sculptures and paintings featuring corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. As the president of Colombia noted, Botero's works depicted both the traditions and defects of Colombian culture. Born in 1932 in Colombia, Botero gained worldwide fame for exaggerating the sizes of his subjects in both comical and serious works addressing politics and other topics.

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    Fernando Botero, a celebrated Colombian artist known for his sculptures and paintings featuring corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. As the president of Colombia noted, Botero's works depicted both the traditions and defects of Colombian culture. Born in 1932 in Colombia, Botero gained worldwide fame for exaggerating the sizes of his subjects in both comical and serious works addressing politics and other topics.

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    Fernando Botero: Celebrated Colombian artist dies aged 91


    Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide
    w fame with his
    sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures,
    f has died at the age of 91.
    His works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics
    and other serious
    s subjects.
    President Gustavo Petro called
    c him "the painter of our traditions and defects, the
    painter of our virtues".
    The artist, who lived in Monaco, was suffering
    s from pneumonia, his daughter Lina
    said on Friday.
    Local media hailed Botero as the greatest Colombian artist of all time. His
    hometown, Medellín, has declared
    d a week of mourning.
    The son of a travelling salesman, Botero was born in 1932. In his 20s he travelled
    to Europe, where he discovered classical art before moving
    m to the US in 1960.
    He said that in the late
    l 1950s he discovered "a new dimension that was more
    voluminous, more monumental, more extravagant, more extreme".
    He exaggerated the size of his subjects, sometimes for comical effect
    e or for
    parody.
    One of the most famous examples is his version
    v of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
    with a puffed-up face.
    Critics often derided the exaggerated size of his subjects.
    s

    "If I paint a woman, a man, a dog or a horse, I always do with this idea of the
    volume," Botero told
    t Spain's El Mundo newspaper in 2014.
    "I don't paint fat women," he went on. "What
    W I do paint are volumes."
    Some of his more sombre works show Colombian guerrilla fighters
    f and
    earthquakes.
    There were some controversies. He faced
    f criticism for his painting of the death of
    the notorious drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar, who was gunned down by police in
    Medellín in 1993.
    Botero originally showed Escobar dodging bullets in an heroic show of defiance
    but later bowed
    b to pressure and produced an image of the dead drug lord.
    He also caused a stir with his huge portraits showing the US Army's torture of
    inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. They were exhibited at a venue
    v close to
    President George W Bush's White House in Washington.
    Botero had studios in Paris, New York, Mexico, Colombia and Italy. Any of his
    works sells for over $2m, according
    a to Sotheby's auction house.

    source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66819339

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